https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=SU%3A%20STORYTELLING&QRYTEXT=Subject%3A%20Storytelling%20(Keywords)&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=553831&CF=BIB Nia loves stories about dragons and unicorns, brave princesses and faraway lands. Every night, Mum tucks her into bed, and they lose themselves in another wonderful adventure. But what if, Nia asks, she gets kidnapped by a wicked witch? Or locked up by a terrible Beast in a tower? Or stuck at the top of a beanstalk with a grouchy giant? Would Mum come and rescue her? The answer to that is: 'Yyes, always.' Nia loves stories about dragons and unicorns, brave princesses and faraway lands. Every night, Mum tucks her into bed, and they lose themselves in another wonderful adventure. But what if, Nia asks, she gets kidnapped by a wicked witch? Or locked up by a terrible Beast in a tower? Or stuck at the top of a beanstalk with a grouchy giant? Would Mum come and rescue her? The answer to that is: 'Yyes, always.'<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Peter, Gareth<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2024.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2024<br />1 volume (unaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - P - Onloan - Due: 30 May 2024 - 010990727<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=554296&CF=BIB Basil Beedon and Terry Clegg are neighbours, and that's all they have in common. Terry loves sport and Basil loves books -- but to Basil's absolute dismay, he's been roped into helping Terry with his reading. Every. Single. Saturday. However, that's the least of his worries when Gretel comes shooting out of The Complete Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm. The boys are plunged into a dangerous world run by the Fairytale Alliance Network of Character Yunions (FANCY), where not everyone is what they seem, Hansel has been kidnapped and a plot hole threatens to destroy everything. Basil Beedon and Terry Clegg are neighbours, and that's all they have in common. Terry loves sport and Basil loves books -- but to Basil's absolute dismay, he's been roped into helping Terry with his reading. Every. Single. Saturday. However, that's the least of his worries when Gretel comes shooting out of The Complete Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm. The boys are plunged into a dangerous world run by the Fairytale Alliance Network of Character Yunions (FANCY), where not everyone is what they seem, Hansel has been kidnapped and a plot hole threatens to destroy everything.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Byrd, Annaleise<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Gadigal and Wangal Country ; Newtown, NSW : Walker Books Australia, 2024.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2024<br />135 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J BYR - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 011004010<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=558018&CF=BIB Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the pandemic, Fourteen Days is a dazzling, heartwarming novel with an unusual twist: each character has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston to Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other - become real neighbours. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas Preston, and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn't get away from the city when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming collection, Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger. Includes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston, Celeste Ng, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, John Grisham, Diana Gabaldon, Ishmael Reed, Meg Wolitzer, Luis Alberto Urrea, James Shapiro, Sylvia Day, Mary Pope Osborne, Monique Truong, Hampton Sides, R. L. Stine, R. O. Kwon, David Byrne, Louise Erdrich, Neil Gaiman, Rachel Kushner, Candace Bushnell, Nora Roberts, Scott Turow, Tommy Orange, and more! Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the pandemic, Fourteen Days is a dazzling, heartwarming novel with an unusual twist: each character has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston to Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other - become real neighbours. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas Preston, and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn't get away from the city when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming collection, Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger. Includes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston, Celeste Ng, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, John Grisham, Diana Gabaldon, Ishmael Reed, Meg Wolitzer, Luis Alberto Urrea, James Shapiro, Sylvia Day, Mary Pope Osborne, Monique Truong, Hampton Sides, R. L. Stine, R. O. Kwon, David Byrne, Louise Erdrich, Neil Gaiman, Rachel Kushner, Candace Bushnell, Nora Roberts, Scott Turow, Tommy Orange, and more!<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Chatto & Windus, 2024.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2024<br />xi, 363 pages ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10 reserves</span><br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - FOUR - Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 - 010988724<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - FOUR - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 29 Apr 2024) - 010988717<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - FOUR - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 29 Apr 2024) - 011001460<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=558044&CF=BIB 'What are you doing here? You're in the WRONG BOOK!' Nicholas Ickle is trying to tell a story, but he keeps getting interrupted by characters from other stories--a pirate, a queen, even some monsters! To get a chance to tell his story, he'll need to convince the others that they are in the WRONG BOOK. 'What are you doing here? You're in the WRONG BOOK!' Nicholas Ickle is trying to tell a story, but he keeps getting interrupted by characters from other stories--a pirate, a queen, even some monsters! To get a chance to tell his story, he'll need to convince the others that they are in the WRONG BOOK.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Bland, Nick, 1973-<br />15th anniversary edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Lindfield, NSW : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Australia, 2024.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2009<br />1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - B - Available - 010986171<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=555834&CF=BIB What is the point of inventing stories when reality eclipses imagination? A little way off in the future, during a time of plague and profound social collapse, a group of friends escapes to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by playing music, eating, drinking and telling stories about their lives. There are tales of thieves and pirates, deaths and a surprise birth, a freak wave and many other stories of misadventure resulting in unexpected felicity. The Deck borrows the motifs of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century masterpiece, The Decameron, in which another small group gathered to avoid contagion and passed the time telling stories. But what is the role of fiction, this novel asks, as civilisation falters? What is the point of inventing stories when reality eclipses imagination? A little way off in the future, during a time of plague and profound social collapse, a group of friends escapes to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by playing music, eating, drinking and telling stories about their lives. There are tales of thieves and pirates, deaths and a surprise birth, a freak wave and many other stories of misadventure resulting in unexpected felicity. The Deck borrows the motifs of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century masterpiece, The Decameron, in which another small group gathered to avoid contagion and passed the time telling stories. But what is the role of fiction, this novel asks, as civilisation falters?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Farrell, Fiona, 1947-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Auckland, New Zealand] : Vintage, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />303 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - FARR - Available - 010979876<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=556080&CF=BIB Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude grew up and lost her magic - and her best friend. These days, magic is toothless, reduced to glamour patches and psychic energy drinks found in supermarkets and shopping malls. Odette has always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and two weeks ago she went searching for it. Now she?s missing, and everyone says she?s dead. Everyone except Maude. Storytelling has always been Maude?s gift, so she knows all about girls who get lost in the woods. She?s sure she can find Odette inside the ruins of Sicklehurst, an abandoned power plant built over an ancient magical forest - a place nobody else seems to remember is there. The danger is, no one knows what remains inside Sicklehurst, either. And every good story is sure to have a monster. Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude grew up and lost her magic - and her best friend. These days, magic is toothless, reduced to glamour patches and psychic energy drinks found in supermarkets and shopping malls. Odette has always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and two weeks ago she went searching for it. Now she?s missing, and everyone says she?s dead. Everyone except Maude. Storytelling has always been Maude?s gift, so she knows all about girls who get lost in the woods. She?s sure she can find Odette inside the ruins of Sicklehurst, an abandoned power plant built over an ancient magical forest - a place nobody else seems to remember is there. The danger is, no one knows what remains inside Sicklehurst, either. And every good story is sure to have a monster.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Wilkinson, Lili, 1981-<br />Unabridged.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2023]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>℗2023.<br />10 audio discs (CD) (12 hr., 44 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Audio Books on CD - ACD WILK - Available - 010659877<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=533471&CF=BIB Once upon a time there was a Prince and a Princess, and they lived happily ever after. The End. This is the shortest bedtime story ever. Seriously. As long as there are no interruptions - like sneezy dragons, or alien goo, and especially not monkeys with lasers on their heads - this story will be all finished, just in time for bed. Sounds perfect ... right? Once upon a time there was a Prince and a Princess, and they lived happily ever after. The End. This is the shortest bedtime story ever. Seriously. As long as there are no interruptions - like sneezy dragons, or alien goo, and especially not monkeys with lasers on their heads - this story will be all finished, just in time for bed. Sounds perfect ... right?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Campbell, David<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Gosford, NSW : Scholastic Press, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - C - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 010813453<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=539230&CF=BIB In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theatre company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. This novel is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theatre company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. This novel is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Patchett, Ann<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Bloomsbury, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />309 pages ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">40 reserves</span><br /><br />14 copies <br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=542542&CF=BIB Henry and Ali tell their teacher a wild outer space tale to explain why they do not have their homework on the solar system. Henry and Ali tell their teacher a wild outer space tale to explain why they do not have their homework on the solar system.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Calì, Davide, 1972-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2023]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 21 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - C - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 010963042<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=542979&CF=BIB In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theatre company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. This novel is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theatre company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. This novel is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Patchett, Ann<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Bloomsbury, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />309 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Hot Reads - Read It Now! - AC PATC - Return item to Kate at Sandringham (Set: 06 Apr 2024) - 010840985<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=543140&CF=BIB A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated with keepsakes connected to his life by family and friends. As she becomes attuned to the ways certain items can evoke specific memories or moments, she begins to ask questions about the relationships between objects and people. Why is it so difficult to discard some artefacts and not others? Does the power exerted by precious things influence the ways we remember the past and perceive the future? As Nisbet considers her father's life and begins to connect his experiences of mental illness with her own, she wonders whether hanging on to 'stuff' is ultimately a source of comfort or concern. Intimate and wide-ranging, The Things We Live With is a collection of essays about how we learn to live with the 'things' handed down in families which we carry throughout our lives- not only material objects, but also grief, memory, anxiety and depression. It's about notions of home and restlessness, inheritance and belonging - and, above all, the ways we tell our stories to ourselves and other people. A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated with keepsakes connected to his life by family and friends. As she becomes attuned to the ways certain items can evoke specific memories or moments, she begins to ask questions about the relationships between objects and people. Why is it so difficult to discard some artefacts and not others? Does the power exerted by precious things influence the ways we remember the past and perceive the future? As Nisbet considers her father's life and begins to connect his experiences of mental illness with her own, she wonders whether hanging on to 'stuff' is ultimately a source of comfort or concern. Intimate and wide-ranging, The Things We Live With is a collection of essays about how we learn to live with the 'things' handed down in families which we carry throughout our lives- not only material objects, but also grief, memory, anxiety and depression. It's about notions of home and restlessness, inheritance and belonging - and, above all, the ways we tell our stories to ourselves and other people.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Nisbet, Gemma<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Perth, Western Australia : Upswell Publishing, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />165 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 155.937 NIS - Available - 010944324<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=544453&CF=BIB Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends - a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl - bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room in the home of two little girls, the truth is more astonishing than any of them could have imagined. Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends - a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl - bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room in the home of two little girls, the truth is more astonishing than any of them could have imagined.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>DiCamillo, Kate<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Walker Books, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />152 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.<br />Norendy tale ; 1.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J DIC - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 010956778<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=545323&CF=BIB Celebrate all things spooky with #1 New York Times best-selling author Ryan T. Higgins's beloved Mother Bruce. Bruce is a bear who does not like holidays, and he really doesn't like Halloween. His family of mice and geese decide the only way to get Bruce excited about Halloween is to tell a spooky story. But their campfire tale takes a turn when a ghostly visitor appears. Will Bruce get in the Halloween spirit? Or will the Halloween spirit get Bruce? Read all the Mother Bruce books! Picture Books: Mother Bruce Hotel Bruce Bruce's Big Move Santa Bruce Bruce's Big Storm The Bruce Swap Hey, Bruce! Be Quiet! Board Books: 1 Grumpy Bruce Peek-a-Bruce Little Bruce Books: Spring Stinks Thanks for Nothing! Early Readers: Bruce's Big Fun Day Ballet Bruce Celebrate all things spooky with #1 New York Times best-selling author Ryan T. Higgins's beloved Mother Bruce. Bruce is a bear who does not like holidays, and he really doesn't like Halloween. His family of mice and geese decide the only way to get Bruce excited about Halloween is to tell a spooky story. But their campfire tale takes a turn when a ghostly visitor appears. Will Bruce get in the Halloween spirit? Or will the Halloween spirit get Bruce? Read all the Mother Bruce books! Picture Books: Mother Bruce Hotel Bruce Bruce's Big Move Santa Bruce Bruce's Big Storm The Bruce Swap Hey, Bruce! Be Quiet! Board Books: 1 Grumpy Bruce Peek-a-Bruce Little Bruce Books: Spring Stinks Thanks for Nothing! Early Readers: Bruce's Big Fun Day Ballet Bruce<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Higgins, Ryan T.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[United States] : Disney Book Group, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Made available through hoopla<br />1 online resource<br />Mother Bruce (Series)<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Resource available online</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Resource available online</span><br /><br />Web - (Bayside Library Service) - Ebooks - DOWNLOADABLE - check availability online (Set: 07 Aug 2023) - Access resource<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=546288&CF=BIB What makes a great story? How are stories made? This clever and unique look at storytelling can help us to understand that great stories need more than exciting and imaginative settings... Meet Bella she's not that rabbit, nor the squirrel, she's the hills, and the trees, and everything in the background. But today, she's taking control and creating her own story. Today, she's Bella the Storyteller, and she wants her story to have dragons and dinosaurs and pirates and unicorns and aliens in space! This is going to be the best story ever...but Rabbit and Squirrel might not agree. What makes a great story? How are stories made? This clever and unique look at storytelling can help us to understand that great stories need more than exciting and imaginative settings... Meet Bella she's not that rabbit, nor the squirrel, she's the hills, and the trees, and everything in the background. But today, she's taking control and creating her own story. Today, she's Bella the Storyteller, and she wants her story to have dragons and dinosaurs and pirates and unicorns and aliens in space! This is going to be the best story ever...but Rabbit and Squirrel might not agree.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Naylor-Ballesteros, Chris<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Andersen Press, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - N - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 010854555<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=546504&CF=BIB It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Patchett, Ann<br /><br />Web - (Bayside Library Service) - Ebooks - DOWNLOADABLE - check availability online (Set: 22 Aug 2023) - Access resource<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=546505&CF=BIB THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE &amp;#8211; THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'A new Ann Patchett novel is always cause for celebration ... and Tom Lake is one of her best' i 'This comforting summer read has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships' REESE WITHERSPOON 'Filled with the moments I live for in a story' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry 'One of the most beloved authors of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES &amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;- This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor. This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn't famous at all. It's about falling so wildly in love with him &amp;#8211; the way one will at twenty-four &amp;#8211; that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight. There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end. It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear &amp;#8211; of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. 'One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage ... Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers' ELLE &amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;- Praise for The Dutch House: 'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian 'The best book I've read in years' Rosamund Lupton 'Her finest novel yet' Sunday Times 'The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' John Boyne 'A masterpiece' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Bliss' Nigella Lawson The Dutch House was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller w/e 28.09.19 THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE &amp;#8211; THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'A new Ann Patchett novel is always cause for celebration ... and Tom Lake is one of her best' i 'This comforting summer read has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships' REESE WITHERSPOON 'Filled with the moments I live for in a story' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry 'One of the most beloved authors of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES &amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;- This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor. This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn't famous at all. It's about falling so wildly in love with him &amp;#8211; the way one will at twenty-four &amp;#8211; that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight. There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end. It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear &amp;#8211; of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. 'One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage ... Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers' ELLE &amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;- Praise for The Dutch House: 'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian 'The best book I've read in years' Rosamund Lupton 'Her finest novel yet' Sunday Times 'The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' John Boyne 'A masterpiece' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Bliss' Nigella Lawson The Dutch House was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller w/e 28.09.19<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Patchett, Ann<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.<br />1 online resource (11 audio files) : digital<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Available online: </span>Click to access digital title.<br /><br />Web - (Bayside Library Service) - Eaudio Books - DOWNLOADABLE - check availability online (Set: 22 Aug 2023) - Access resource<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=548052&CF=BIB "School is tough. School is scary. School is EERIE. No one knows this better than Davis and Emily. But they're not scared of school because of tough tests or merciless vice-principals. No, they're scared because their teacher wants her students to present the class with the spookiest, most chilling stories they can think of. From the twisted mind of Graham Annable comes five horrifying stories that will scare your skeleton right out of your skin. Are you ready to stare down "The Face in the Forest"? Do you think you can handle the truth behind "The Village that Vanished?" Lock the doors, turn on all the lights, and arm yourself with candy- you'll need all the help you can get to face these nightmares."--Provided by publisher. "School is tough. School is scary. School is EERIE. No one knows this better than Davis and Emily. But they're not scared of school because of tough tests or merciless vice-principals. No, they're scared because their teacher wants her students to present the class with the spookiest, most chilling stories they can think of. From the twisted mind of Graham Annable comes five horrifying stories that will scare your skeleton right out of your skin. Are you ready to stare down "The Face in the Forest"? Do you think you can handle the truth behind "The Village that Vanished?" Lock the doors, turn on all the lights, and arm yourself with candy- you'll need all the help you can get to face these nightmares."--Provided by publisher.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Annable, Graham<br />First edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : First Second, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />360 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 22 cm<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Graphic Novel - J ANN - Onloan - Due: 19 May 2024 - 010982692<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=549253&CF=BIB It's a race to do homework-in space! But first, there's a spaceship jam. Then there's the moon detour, the Mars alien exploration, and a stop on the gravity-defying International Space Station. And that's just the beginning! Henry and Ali want to get their homework done-they really do! But how are they supposed to study the solar system when they seem to be swept up in an endless series of interstellar surprises? From Davide Cali and Benjamin Chaud, the author-illustrator team behind I Didn't Do My Homework Because . . ., comes an action-packed, entertaining tale about trying to get your homework done, whether you're in-or out-of this world! It's a race to do homework-in space! But first, there's a spaceship jam. Then there's the moon detour, the Mars alien exploration, and a stop on the gravity-defying International Space Station. And that's just the beginning! Henry and Ali want to get their homework done-they really do! But how are they supposed to study the solar system when they seem to be swept up in an endless series of interstellar surprises? From Davide Cali and Benjamin Chaud, the author-illustrator team behind I Didn't Do My Homework Because . . ., comes an action-packed, entertaining tale about trying to get your homework done, whether you're in-or out-of this world!<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Calì, Davide, 1972-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[United States] : Chronicle Books LLC, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Made available through hoopla<br />1 online resource<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Resource available online</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Resource available online</span><br /><br />Web - (Bayside Library Service) - Ebooks - DOWNLOADABLE - check availability online (Set: 09 Oct 2023) - Access resource<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=550500&CF=BIB Grandpa and Little Bear share a dream to visit Faraway Valley -- a special, hard-to-find place full of wild and wonderful creatures, a place where the air smells of pine needles, a place they've only seen on a postcard. The determined pair study maps, read books and practice camping to prepare for their adventure, then set sail for the long journey. But when they arrive in the north, they find a bustling port full of shops, where everyone seems to have forgotten about Faraway Valley. Does the beautiful place of their dreams still exist, and can they find it? A magical, heart-warming tale of wonder and adventure, this moving picture book gently explores themes of celebrating nature and respecting wild landscapes. Cecilia Heikkilae's stunning artwork is full of texture, colour and character. Grandpa and Little Bear share a dream to visit Faraway Valley -- a special, hard-to-find place full of wild and wonderful creatures, a place where the air smells of pine needles, a place they've only seen on a postcard. The determined pair study maps, read books and practice camping to prepare for their adventure, then set sail for the long journey. But when they arrive in the north, they find a bustling port full of shops, where everyone seems to have forgotten about Faraway Valley. Does the beautiful place of their dreams still exist, and can they find it? A magical, heart-warming tale of wonder and adventure, this moving picture book gently explores themes of celebrating nature and respecting wild landscapes. Cecilia Heikkilae's stunning artwork is full of texture, colour and character.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Heikkilä, Cecilia<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Edinburgh : Floris Books, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - H - Onloan - Due: 30 May 2024 - 010981589<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=552216&CF=BIB This is a story within a story, featuring a mouse who is forced to tell stories to save his life, a cat who plans to eat said mouse as soon as the story is finished, and our protagonist's protagonist, a princess in trouble. 1001 Nights style story within a story - starring a lethal cat and a mouse with a storytelling knack. Within the pages of The Taming of the Cat is the adventure of a Princess who does not wish to be married. Written as a modern fairy story, this is a story about tolerance, outsiders, and non traditional partnerships. This illustrated story is accompanied with plenty of cheese, catnip, and magic feasts. There are two stories entwined: the story of Brie the mouse; and the fairytale he tells - Scheherazade-like, to Gorgonzola the cat. This is a story within a story, featuring a mouse who is forced to tell stories to save his life, a cat who plans to eat said mouse as soon as the story is finished, and our protagonist's protagonist, a princess in trouble. 1001 Nights style story within a story - starring a lethal cat and a mouse with a storytelling knack. Within the pages of The Taming of the Cat is the adventure of a Princess who does not wish to be married. Written as a modern fairy story, this is a story about tolerance, outsiders, and non traditional partnerships. This illustrated story is accompanied with plenty of cheese, catnip, and magic feasts. There are two stories entwined: the story of Brie the mouse; and the fairytale he tells - Scheherazade-like, to Gorgonzola the cat.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Cooper, Helen, 1963-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber & Faber, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />352 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J COO - Available - 010975878<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=552291&CF=BIB Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artefact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose ground-breaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan's tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artefact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose ground-breaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan's tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Torres, Justin, 1980-<br />First edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />305 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm<br /><br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TORR - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 010922674<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=545079&CF=BIB <span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>McKee, David<br />Prima edizione.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Milano : Mondadori, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Image available online</span><br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - LOTE - Italian Collection - ITA PIC MAC - Available - 010387770<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=539940&CF=BIB Stories are doorways, and there are no limits to where they may lead. This is a wordless picture book for you to create countless stories. Its fantastical illustrations are the beginnings of magical new adventures. But there are no accompanying words, because you, the storyteller, are the missing ingredient! Here are 52 intricate illustrations-of intriguing characters and animals, strange lands, and mythical beings. Open to any page and imagine what is happening, what has been, or what can be! Whether you're exploring the images on a road trip, before bedtime, or as a classroom activity, every tale you tell will be wildly unique and 100% yours. Stories are doorways, and there are no limits to where they may lead. This is a wordless picture book for you to create countless stories. Its fantastical illustrations are the beginnings of magical new adventures. But there are no accompanying words, because you, the storyteller, are the missing ingredient! Here are 52 intricate illustrations-of intriguing characters and animals, strange lands, and mythical beings. Open to any page and imagine what is happening, what has been, or what can be! Whether you're exploring the images on a road trip, before bedtime, or as a classroom activity, every tale you tell will be wildly unique and 100% yours.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Hurst, Elise<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Seattle, WA : Compendium, Inc., 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Non-Fiction Language & Literature - J 808.3 HUR - Available - 010709220<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=534348&CF=BIB Deep in the heart of the wilderness, creatures come out of the darkness to sit around the Night Librarian, who transports them to the land of imagination with her silver silken stories. Deep in the heart of the wilderness, creatures come out of the darkness to sit around the Night Librarian, who transports them to the land of imagination with her silver silken stories.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Oliver, Carmen<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Zürich, Switzerland : NorthSouth, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - O - Onloan - Due: 20 May 2024 - 010670445<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=510905&CF=BIB Maku loves watching movies. It's his favourite thing to do. He especially loves movies with superheroes. Maku's second favourite thing to do is go bush with his nan and pop. They show him the Emu in the sky and tell him about the Rainbow Serpent. Maku loves watching movies. It's his favourite thing to do. He especially loves movies with superheroes. Maku's second favourite thing to do is go bush with his nan and pop. They show him the Emu in the sky and tell him about the Rainbow Serpent.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Wyatt, Meyne<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Sydney, New South Wales : Pan, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.<br />Our stories<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - Early Junior Fiction - JF EARLY WYA - Available - 010513070<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - Early Junior Fiction - JF EARLY WYA - Available - 010513063<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - Early Junior Fiction - JF EARLY WYA - Available - 010513056<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - Early Junior Fiction - JF EARLY WYA - Available - 010513049<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=511893&CF=BIB Meet Zadie Ma, a girl who writes magical stories that sometimes come true. Can Zadie bring to life her most important story of all... the one where she finds Jupiter, the dog of her dreams? From one of Australia's most esteemed and award-winning children's authors and Australian Children's Laureate for 2022-23 comes a heartwarming story set in postwar Melbourne about courage, friendship, the magic of stories and one girl's unwavering love for her dog. Zadie Ma has a special talent for telling stories... and it seems that some of Zadie's stories come true. Zadie's dearest wish is to have a dog of her own and so she starts to write the story of a poor unwanted dog called Jupiter, who's just waiting to be rescued by a loving girl like Zadie. One morning when she's supposed to be minding the family shop for her mother, Zadie sets off to look for Jupiter. Meet Zadie Ma, a girl who writes magical stories that sometimes come true. Can Zadie bring to life her most important story of all... the one where she finds Jupiter, the dog of her dreams? From one of Australia's most esteemed and award-winning children's authors and Australian Children's Laureate for 2022-23 comes a heartwarming story set in postwar Melbourne about courage, friendship, the magic of stories and one girl's unwavering love for her dog. Zadie Ma has a special talent for telling stories... and it seems that some of Zadie's stories come true. Zadie's dearest wish is to have a dog of her own and so she starts to write the story of a poor unwanted dog called Jupiter, who's just waiting to be rescued by a loving girl like Zadie. One morning when she's supposed to be minding the family shop for her mother, Zadie sets off to look for Jupiter.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Wang, Gabrielle<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Sydney, New South Wales] : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />241 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J WAN - Available - 010602637<br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J WAN - Onloan - Due: 27 May 2024 - 010602644<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J WAN - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 010602675<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J WAN - Available - 010602651<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=518808&CF=BIB Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die, was home to the Midnight Club -- a group of five young men and women who met at midnight and told stories of intrigue and horror. One night they made a pact that the first of them to die would make every effort to contact the others... from beyond the grave. Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die, was home to the Midnight Club -- a group of five young men and women who met at midnight and told stories of intrigue and horror. One night they made a pact that the first of them to die would make every effort to contact the others... from beyond the grave.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Pike, Christopher, 1955-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Hodder Children's Books, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©1994<br />212 pages ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T PIK - Available - 010584902<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=518881&CF=BIB Eleanor is happiest when she's left alone to dream up elaborate stories. Sam is outgoing, fun and popular. Despite their differences, the sisters have always been there for each other - until everything changes. Now Sam is somewhere in Seattle, and Eleanor runs after her. Nothing is easy in the big, unforgiving city. As Eleanor faces setbacks, she also makes new friends and tells new stories. Eleanor can rewrite her life in so many ways ... but can she make a happy ending her reality? Eleanor is happiest when she's left alone to dream up elaborate stories. Sam is outgoing, fun and popular. Despite their differences, the sisters have always been there for each other - until everything changes. Now Sam is somewhere in Seattle, and Eleanor runs after her. Nothing is easy in the big, unforgiving city. As Eleanor faces setbacks, she also makes new friends and tells new stories. Eleanor can rewrite her life in so many ways ... but can she make a happy ending her reality?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Patterson, James, 1947-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Young Arrow, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />273 pages : colour illustrations ; 19 cm.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Graphic Novel - T PAT - Available - 010594253<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=521548&CF=BIB A warm, inspirational story about determination, conservation, the magic of nature... and grandads. In a noisy, grey city, Sam and his Grandpa long for the deep, dark wonderful jungle. But when their dream comes true, can they find a way to protect it? A delightful story book for all generations about the magic of wild places and the amazing things we can achieve when we all work together. The Tree at Number 43 inspires hope for the future of our environment without any sense of doom and gloom. A book for parents and grandparents to share and enjoy with kids, whether they want to create a garden at home or change the world. A warm, inspirational story about determination, conservation, the magic of nature... and grandads. In a noisy, grey city, Sam and his Grandpa long for the deep, dark wonderful jungle. But when their dream comes true, can they find a way to protect it? A delightful story book for all generations about the magic of wild places and the amazing things we can achieve when we all work together. The Tree at Number 43 inspires hope for the future of our environment without any sense of doom and gloom. A book for parents and grandparents to share and enjoy with kids, whether they want to create a garden at home or change the world.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>McGeachin, Jess<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Southbank, VIC] : Puffin Books, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.<br />Premiers' Reading Challenge Early Childhood to Year 2<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - M - Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 - 010570189<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - M - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 010570196<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=522562&CF=BIB Tentacle Kitty comes to comics! The world according to Tentacle Kitty! Join "the Pink One" and friends as the whole tentacle kitty gang regales us with tales of action and adventure over tea! From hunting down cotton candy mice, to pirate hijinks, and mega convention run ins, this tome features stories for all readers, told only as a Tentacle Kitty can! - The first graphic novel of the convention sensation Tentacle Kitty! Tentacle Kitty comes to comics! The world according to Tentacle Kitty! Join "the Pink One" and friends as the whole tentacle kitty gang regales us with tales of action and adventure over tea! From hunting down cotton candy mice, to pirate hijinks, and mega convention run ins, this tome features stories for all readers, told only as a Tentacle Kitty can! - The first graphic novel of the convention sensation Tentacle Kitty!<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Merritt, John, active 1989<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[United States] : Dark Horse Comics, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Made available through hoopla<br />1 online resource<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Resource available online</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Resource available online</span><br /><br />Web - (Bayside Library Service) - Ebooks - DOWNLOADABLE - check availability online (Set: 02 Aug 2022) - Access resource<br />