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What is the Redland City Young People’s Library Service?
Our Young Peoples Library service is based on
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Promoting the importance of literacy to all children, parents, carers and teachers. Our
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strive to ignite a passion for reading, literacy and to engage in your local Redland Library Service.
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Best Reads Girls 7-9 years
Best Reads Boys 7 - 9 years
Best Reads Girls 10 - 12 years
Best Reads Boys 10 - 12 years
Best Reads Girls 13 + years
Best Reads Boys 13 + years
Little Bird Tales
A wonderful site for digital storytelling for young learners. Children can create and upload their artwork, narrate and record their voice, and add text to their story.
Useful Websites
Inside a Dog
A website for young people about books
Tux Paint
Free drawing software.Suitable for children aged 3 - 12 years.
BooksInMyPhone
Browse and download lots of classic literature adapted for mobiles and other hand held devices.
Returnmypants
A free borrowing and lending program to track items you lent or borrowed so you don't lose a book again!
20thingsilearned
Learn cool things about the web in the style of a book, the pages even curl.
Storybird
Stories you can create, design and read
Create Your Own Games
SCRATCH
Game Making Development Kit : Unreal Developer Kit from NVIDIA
Downloadable Stories
Bedtime Stories: Downloadable tales for Children
A new story is published by an Australian author each Monday.
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Children's Author Event - Justin D'ath
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05-11-2012
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Meet children's author Justin D'ath at Cleveland Library on Thursday 7 June 3.30 - 4.30pm. Justin is the author of over 30 books for children and young adults, including the hugely popular Extreme Adventures and Mission Fox series. Other books...
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National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS)
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05-11-2012
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Come and join us on Wednesday 23 May, 10.30 - 11.15 where we will celebrating a special storytelling session involving, Nick Bland's wonderful picture book, 'The Very Cranky Bear'. At the same time all around the country, libraries will also...
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Children's Author Event - Deborah Abela
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04-30-2012
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Deborah Abela is the popular author of Ghost Club , Grimsdon , the Max Remy Superspy series, the Jasper Zammit (Soccer Legend ) series and The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen . Come along and hear Deb speak about her latest books and why she loves...
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Book Review: Rusty and the Racehorse by Patricia Young ( 2012)
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04-23-2012
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Suitable for pre-school age E YOU This is another georgeous story about a little red dexter bull called Rusty who lives on Cloverdale Farm. Jezadine the racehorse has become trapped under a fallen tree branch, will Rusty be strong enought to free his...
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Book Review: A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka (2012)
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04-13-2012
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Suitable for ages 3 - 5. E RAS Daisy the dog is so delighted when her owner gives her a new red ball. Daisy does everything with her ball and loves best of all going to the park with her owner and playing with it. One day another dog comes along to play...
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Easter School Holidays
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03-27-2012
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Come along and have fun with the library holiday activities . Sandart will be held at Cleveland Library, Tuesday 3rd April 10.00 - 11.00am 8 years and under, no bookings. Fairytale Friends Day Out will be held at Victoria Point Library, Wednesday 4th...
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Book Review: Pirate House Swap by Abie Longstaff
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03-16-2012
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Suitable for ages 5 and over This is quite adorable when an innocent family looking for a new idea for an exciting holiday, decide to house swap with another family. They are excited when the dad finds an ad in the newspaper which seems perfect, except...
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Book Review: Fearless in Love by Colin Thompson (2012)
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03-16-2012
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Suitable for ages 4 and over E THO Fearless remembers the wise words his mother told him, when he leaves his home to go and live with his new family, "Life is much easier if you love everyone". He tries very hard to love everything, but it doesn't...
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Book Review:The Four Little Pigs by Kimara Nye
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03-09-2012
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Suitable for ages 5 and over. E NYE This is a retelling of the classic Three Little Pigs, with a marvellous twist. Tom is the main character who is a bit bored reading at his Granny's house. She is a Granny witch and transports Tom into the Fairy...
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Book Review: The Not-So Scary Snorklum by Paul Bright
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03-02-2012
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Suitable for ages 3 and over. E BRI Poor old Snorklum all he tries to do all day, is to be a very scary Snorklum, but stikes trouble all the time achieving this task . He meets a few friends along the way, who are not so sure he is all that scary and...
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Book Review: I'm Here by Peter Reynolds (2011)
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02-27-2012
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Suitable for children 4 to 8 years E REY This author has written this story to help support children and families living with autism. It is a gentle book about a little boy who plays by himself in the playground away from the other children and is in...
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Book Review: Aliens in Underpants Save the World by Claire Freedman (2009)
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02-27-2012
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Suitable for ages 3 and over E FRE This picture book has a wonderful sense of humour where aliens go to great lengths to save the planet with their trusty underpants. Youngsters will love these loveable creatures and the bright and colourful illustrations...
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Book Review: Small Florence by Claire Alexander
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02-14-2012
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Suitable for ages 3 years onwards E ALE Florence is the little pig sister who's older sisters wont include her with their favourite passtime, singing, because she is not as good as they are. Well small florence ends up being a huge surprise and turns...
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Book Review: Sometimes Love is Under Your Foot by Colin Thompson
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02-03-2012
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Suitable for Primary school ages E THO This is a story about family members taking each other for granted and not saying I love you! Especially the Dad who is busy and doesn't have any time for such things or the family dog Kevin. One day the Dad...
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Book Review: Being a Pig is nice: a child's eye view of Manners by Sally Lloyd-Jones
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01-27-2012
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Suitable for ages 4 and over E LLO A story where a child starts to think about how lucky animals are that they don't get told all the time to use their manners. However, there are drawbacks to consider: pigs smell, elephants are covered with flies...
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Book Review: Big Wolf Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme
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01-27-2012
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Suitable for ages 4 to 7 years. E BRU Big wolf has always lived under a tree at the top of a hill and been very content with life. Then one day along comes a little wolf who decides to live on the other side of the tree. Big wolf is not sure what to do...
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Book Review: Little Mouse's BIG Secret by Eric Battut (2012)
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01-27-2012
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Suitable for ages 2 to 3years E BAT Little Mouse’s Big Secret is a simple tale of a little mouse who found a treat and decides to hide and make it his big secret. The mouse insists on not revealing his secrets despite being questioned by his friend...
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Book Review: Smudger the Dog Saves Christmas by Lissa Evans (2011)
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11-29-2011
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Suitable for ages 4 years and over. E EVA Meet Smudger the dog who ends up going on a walk with a jolly man dressed in red one night, not knowing it was Santa. Find out how Smudger plays a very special part on a very special night in this funny story...
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Book Review: 999 Tadpoles by Ken Kimura (2003)
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11-04-2011
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E KIM All parents think they are very busy and have loads of tasks each day, well wait till you find out what it's like to be the parents of 999 tadpoles! What a situation as they need to all move to a new pond, there current pond becomes too small...
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Book Review: Knuffle Bunny Free by Mo Willems (2010)
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11-04-2011
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E WIL Knuffle Bunny really gets to you! Any parent who has been through the agony of a child losing their attachment toy, whether it be a teddy bear, a special monkey or a knuffle bunny will relate to the anguish in this story. It also reveals the wonders...
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Book Review; Don't Worry Douglas by David Melling
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10-20-2011
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Suitable for ages 4 and over. E MEL This story is a follow up from the wonderful 'Hugless Douglas' tale, with the very adorable bear, Douglas. This time he get's into all sorts of problems and really needs his dad to help sort them out. Douglas...
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Book Review: Chick 'n' Pug by Jennifer Sattler
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10-20-2011
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Suitable for ages 3 and over. E SAT This is a really funny and heartwarming story of a chick who lives for adventure. His is besotted by his hero 'Wonderpug' and gets to meet him in real life. When he does, it is not really what he imagined it...
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Book Review: Meow said the Cow by Emma Dodd
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09-30-2011
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Suitable for 4 and over Picture book is lots of fun and very entertaining and has all the right ingredients for young children. Farm animals start to be silly when a cat starts casting magic spells on the animals so they make the wrong noises. The pigs...
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Book Review: Never Shake a Rattlesnake by Michaela Morgan and Nick Sharrat
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09-30-2011
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suitable for 3 and over Never Shake a Rattlesnake is a zany picture book illustrated by the very colourful and talented Nick Sharratt, who captures a bit nonsense beautifully. The pictures are bright and demonstrate silly things that you really shouldn't...
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Book Review: The Treasure of Captain Claw by Jonathon Emmett and Steve Cox
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09-30-2011
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Suitable for ages 4 and over Lily and Oscar are the characters in this story who are loveable dog characers. This is a perfect mix of pirates, treasure maps, adventure, food, chocolate and a big swindle at the end. This picture book also has fold out...
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