Book Links Event News for 2017! Renew your membership now to be a part of our stellar year to come!
Happy New Year! We hope you had a fantastic Festive Season with family and friends! 2017 is looking to be a stellar year for Book Links, our members, our friends, and children all over the place. Read on to find out
Book links QLD Big Lit Quiz End of Year Event Report
Book links QLD Big Lit Quiz End of Year Event Report by Dimity Powell November 2016 Apart from some scintillating company and a mouth-watering repass of cold meats, salads, pastries, and Pavlova, the recent Book Links End of Year event proved
Big Lit Quiz – end of year event – Sunday 27th November!
It's party time! Come and join members of the Children's Literature Community at our end of year event! End of Year party for the Kids Lit community with a literature quiz based on children's literature. Proceeds to IBBY. Form a team
BIG news! Sarah Davis Illustration Workshop – Sunday, 28th August
BIG news! Sarah Davis Illustration Workshop - Sunday, 28th August. Please SHARE, your friends will love you for it! The Nuts And Bolts Of Illustration Join award-winning illustrator Sarah Davis for an intensive three hour illustration workshop, which will help you take
The Readers Cup Film – The Children’s Book Council of Australia – QLD Branch
Our friends over at the Children's Book Council of Australia - QLD Branch have produced a film to tell us all about the Readers Cup. Read on below, and get involved! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wz0kEb_3J0 New film produced to promote reading quiz The Qld Branch of
Marianne de Pierres’ Write Links Writing Workshop – August 6, 2016
On Saturday 6th of August, Marianne de Pierres will be presenting the next in the Write Links Writing Workshop Series on World Building. Bookings are now open, you can book HERE! Marianne de Pierres is a multi-award winning Australian author of
Australian Children’s Laureate Leigh Hobbs presents the Book Links Annual Lecture in Children’s Literature
Australian Children's Laureate Leigh Hobbs presented the 2016 Book Links Annual Lecture in Children's Literature. He spoke to the topic, ‘The mystery of Visual Literacy, and, why isn’t humour taken more seriously’. The event was very well attended by Children's
An evening with Book Links National Patron Jackie French on the Power of Story
Time stood still on Monday, May 30 as Jackie French spoke about why governments ignore the Power of Story at their peril. Jackie spoke of the Power of Story to change lives. Here is a video of Jackie reading from “Pennies
Jackie French: Dynamo, Dyslexic and Wombat Herder
An evening with Jackie French, patron of Book Links
The Enigmatic Hans Christian Andersen
If Kidlit has a granddaddy, it would have to be Hans Christian Andersen. The second of April is his birthday, a fitting day to mark as International Children’s Book Day, hosted by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People). Book