Information about the National Year of Reading 2012
- National Year of Reading 2012 official website
- ACT Ambassadors for the National Year of Reading
- Australian Children's Laureate
What you can do to participate in the National Year of Reading in Canberra
- What's on
- News
- Our Story
- Are We There Yet? exhibition and competition
- The Reading Hour
- Read This! creative reading prize
- Show your support
- Canberra's longest knitted bookmark
- COOL Awards - Young readers can vote in the children's choice book awards
What's on? National Year of Reading events in the ACT
Browse or search the NYR calendar for events happening in Canberra.
Senator Kate Lundy, one of the National Year of Reading ACT ambassadors, joins local children to cut the fabulous book cake at our community party.
For news about National Year of Reading
- Regularly check the library website for news, programs, and events
- Like Love2Read on Facebook
- Follow @Love2Read2012 on Twitter
- Sign up for the official National Year of Reading mailing list
Follow us on Twitter and look out for the #book2read hashtag for book recommendations throughout the year.
Join the country's biggest book club and read the eight titles chosen as the National Year of Reading collection.
The books, voted by Australians through Our Story, were announced at the national launch of NYR at the National Library of Australia on 14 February and the list of all eight winning titles can be found on the National Year of Reading website.
The winner of the ACT category was Kel Robertson's Smoke and Mirrors. Congratulations Kel!
- More information about Our Story
- Listen to Louise Maher chat with Kel Robertson about Smoke and Mirrors
From 13 - 30 March Civic Library hosted the Are We There Yet? touring exhibition based on the Alison Lester picture book of the same name. The exhibition shows original illustrations, and preliminary and developmental stages in the making of the book, including Alison's diaries and design drafts.
- More information about the exhibition
- Downloadable activities and other resources related to the exhibition
Put 25 August 2012 in your diary to take part in The Reading Hour and share books with family and friends. Reading books with children for just ten minutes a day, an hour a week, can make all the difference.
The Read This! Creative Reading Prize opens on 1 March and entries close 31 May 2012.
There are thousands of dollars worth of prizes on offer, and there will be a winner selected from each state and territory.
Entrants need to choose a great book, one to recommend to others, and pitch it in a creative way. For example:
- Write a review
- Make a book trailer
- Compose a song
- Write a poem or short story
- Illustrate a favourite scene
- Sew a costume
- Or something else creative ... your imagination is the limit
Read This! is open to 12 - 18 year olds.
Print and display a sign to show you are "Proudly supporting National Year of Reading 2012 in Canberra" (PDF 287 KB) (RTF 158 KB)
Canberra's longest knitted bookmark
The Dickson Library knitting group have embarked on a giant task - to knit Canberra's longest bookmark to celebrate the National Year of Reading.
The group is aiming for the bookmark to be long enough to stretch 4.07 km from Dickson Library to Civic Library. To do that, over 19,000 bookmarks (21cm x 6cm) are needed. As of the end of April, we are 15% of the way there!
After the project is completed, it's planned for the bookmarks to be sewn into blankets for local charities.
Join the Dickson Library knitting group on Wednesdays from 1.30 pm - 3.00 pm throughout the year. Alternatively you can knit at home and drop your completed bookmarks into the library.
Creativity is encouraged - choose your own pattern, colours etc.
- Download the bookmark instructions (RTF 15.3 MB) - Please note these instructions are for the size of the bookmark, and leaving a tail at either end, not for how to knit it
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