There are two new toys, a Flapping Flower for very young fingers and a Six-pin (as opposed to a ten-pin) Bowling Set for older children.

There are also two children’s DVDs, “Return to Nim’s Island” and “The Poky Little Puppy’s First Christmas” and two adult audio books on CD with a strong Australian Outback flavor.

How would you feel if you found your sister in your school lunch-box? (What was that about swapping sandwiches ...?) This is just one of the surprising things the hero finds in “What’s in my Lunchbox?”, a cute picture book for young children. For newly independent readers there are two more titles in the “Hey Jack” series, while “To Love a Sunburnt Country” by Jackie French targets teenage readers.

There are also several large print fiction titles.

Author visit on Tuesday, 3rd March. At the Community Hub from 12.30 pm, no charge, light lunch served afterwards. Someone who has previously heard Margareta Osborn speak reports she is very good. (They are coming again.)

Seniors Morning Tea on 10th March. At the Uniting Church Hall from 10.00 am, no charge, fab food and entertainment. The only requirement is that you laugh at the librarian’s jokes.

Our next Summer Reading Club reviewer is Jan Atchison. Jan writes about “An Outback Nurse” by Thea Hayes:

“This is an interesting account of a nurse in the 1960s on a large cattle station in the Northern Territory.

She left Sydney for a bit of adventure, and fell in love with the life and the overseer.

There were some famous people and some not so famous, and big changes over the years, some good and some not so good.

“It has humour and sadness as she is nurse for white and dark people who live on this vast station.

One interesting bit was about her trying to report the weather to Darwin at Christmas time and there was no response as it was when Cyclone Tracey hit Darwin.”

92 HAY Thea Hayes