National Simultaneous Storytime is an annual event where children and young people across Australia come together to read the same story at the same time.
The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found. It is the perfect book to inspire kindness and compassion in young children everywhere.
Special guest reader is beloved Tasmanian children's author, Lian Tanner!
About Lian:
Lian Tanner has worked as a teacher, a tourist bus driver, a juggler, an editor and a professional actor. She has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, hunting for a Japanese soldier left over from the Second World War. It took her a while to realise that all this was preparation for becoming a writer.
Lian has written 14 children’s novels including the best-selling Keepers trilogy, Rita’s Revenge, and Spellhound, and two picture books, Ella and the Ocean and When the Lights Went Out, both illustrated by Jonathan Bentley. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages and have won many awards, including three Aurealis Awards for Best Australian Children’s Fantasy, a NSW Premier’s Literary Award, a Tasmanian Literary Award, a State Library of NSW Russell Prize for Humour, and a Sisters-in-Crime Davitt Award for Best Children’s Crime Novel
Parking:
• Maximum 2 hour stay at the library
• Parking in Channel Court shopping complex is maximum 3 hours.
To ensure a successful event, please:
• Let us know if you can’t attend so we can give your place to someone else
• Don't attend if you are unwell
• Follow hygiene practices eg. hand sanitising
• Let us know if you have any support needs or if a support person will be coming with you.
Accessibility:
• 2 permit mobility parking spaces next to the library - 2 hour parking limits
• Level access, automatic entrance doors, wide doorways and aisles for wheelchairs
• Accessible toilet with a change table for children
• Parenting room in Channel Court shopping centre next to the library
Please contact us if you need more information about this program:
• Kingston Library on (03) 6165 6208
• kingston.library@libraries.tas.gov.au
Libraries Tasmania continues implementing Public Health guidelines to ensure our spaces remain as safe as possible for our clients and staff. Wearing a mask indoors is not mandatory but you may wish to do so, especially where physical distancing is not possible.
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