ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime 2024 at the National Library: Bowerbird Blues @NationalLibraryofAustralia
ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime 2024 at the National Library: Bowerbird Blues  @NationalLibraryofAustralia
Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join Mike from the National Library's Bookshop as he reads 'Bowerbird Blues' by by Aura Parker, an award-winning illustrator, writer and designer, for National Simultaneous Storytime 2024!

National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, family day cares, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Now in its 24th successful year, it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's book that explores age-appropriate themes, and addresses key learning areas of the National Curriculum for Foundation to Year 6.

Featured books
Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker
Snap! by Anna Walker
Fauna by Tania McCartney

Featured collection material
Will R. Barnes, Blue chorus - Act II, 1904, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138711637
Ellis Rowan, Elaeocarpus grandis F.Muell., syn. Elaeocarpus angustifolius Blume, family Elaeocarpaceae, 1887?, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138835672
Thank you address presented to Mrs George Campbell by her Duntroon Sunday school scholars in 1876, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138296239
Albert Collins, Australia : the world's loveliest harbour, Sydney, 1930, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-394878888
Gong pai, 1861, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-691599794
Ivan Bros. International Circus, Acrobats from Ivan Bros. Top of the World International Circus, 1953, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136847631
M. Thevenot, Hollandia Nova detecta 1644 ; Terre Australe decouuerte l'an 1644, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230670124
Laurie Melrose and John Robertson, Song of the Blues, 1935, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-175344972
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