An illustration of two children sitting in a tree, with a cockatoo flying past and a person on a sidewalk in the background
Date 25 May 22
Time 10:30am – 11:45am
Foyer| Livestream online
Free
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Join us and special guests Josh Pyke and Ronojoy Ghosh, for a reading of Family Tree for National Simultaneous Storytime 2022!

For those unable to make it to Canberra for the talk, it will be livestreamed online via the Library's Facebook and YouTube pages. No bookings are required to watch the online stream. The livestream will begin at 11am AEST and will run for approximately 20 minutes.

National Simultaneous Storytime is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association. The event sees a picture book written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country.

The picture book for 2022 is Family Tree by Josh Pyke and illustrated by Ronojoy Ghosh.

Every ticket holder who attends the event onsite at the Library will receive a free copy of Family Tree from Scholastic.

This event is free to attend but bookings are essential. The onsite portion of this event will begin at 10.30am.

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