The Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week celebrates authors, illustrators, and readers (like you!) throughout Australia.

Join us as we celebrate this year’s theme, Dreaming with Eyes Open. Read books from CBCA’s book lists and log your reading, earn badges, and go into the draw to win prizes!

For four weeks at Sunshine Library children can explore the world of science with fun, hands-on experiments and science equipment that they can take home. Budding Einsteins will spend an hour each week having fun with science and will finish in week four with a grand science expo.

The four sessions will run on the 05/08/22, 12/08/22, 19/08/22 and 26/08/22 11.30-12.30am

These sessions are for 3-5 year old children and will require them to have a parent present. Please book a ticket for each child and attend with them. Adults will not need tickets.

For four weeks at St Albans Library children can explore the world of science with fun, hands-on experiments and science equipment that they can take home. Budding Einsteins will spend an hour each week having fun with science and will finish in week four with a grand science expo.

The four sessions will run on the 05/08/22, 12/08/22, 19/08/22 and 26/08/22 1.30-2.30PM

These sessions are for 3-5 year old children and will require them to have a parent present. Please book a ticket for each child and attend with them. Adults will not need tickets.

Would you like to see around corners, or over things like a submarine? Join us to make your own periscope that you can take home to surprise your family and spy on your pets!

Get a closer look at our universe! See stars, constellations, planets and the moon through the Brimbank Libraries telescope. This event is weather dependent.

Would you like to see around corners, or over things like a submarine? Join us to make your own periscope that you can take home to surprise your family and spy on your pets!

Would you like to see around corners, or over things like a submarine? Join us to make your own periscope that you can take home to surprise your family and spy on your pets!

Get a closer look at our universe! See stars, constellations, planets and the moon through the Brimbank Libraries telescope. This event is weather dependent.

Would you like to see around corners, or over things like a submarine? Join us to make your own periscope that you can take home to surprise your family and spy on your pets!

Use Circuitscribe and the amazing science of electricity to make your own light-up constellations to take home!  For children 8+ years old.

Visit your nearest Brimbank Library and spot all of the Monarch Butterflies hidden around the library.

Submit your guess for how many butterflies you spot to enter the competition to win a copy of 'Walk of the Whales' and a Lego prize!  

Visit your nearest Brimbank Library and unscramble as many Australian Bird names as you can to go into the running to win copies of ‘Dragon Skin’ by Karen Foxlee and ‘Glasshouse of Stars’ By Shirley Marr. 

Join us for a series of gardening workshops, with Kaye Roberts-Palmer from Blue Bee Garden Design, to keep the Winter blues away.  Learning how to prune fruit & citrus trees, grow herbs for your health, attract beneficial fauna to your garden, look after your soil and much more. 

Please note:  This event was originally scheduled for Saturday 23rd July.  Due to unforeseen circumstances, it is now taking place on Saturday 20th August - same time, same location.   We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Come along to a special ‘Children’s Book Week’ storytime as we read some of the shortlisted book week titles, and create cat masks inspired by the story ‘Winston and the Indoor Cat’ by Leila Rudge.