This Raising Readers session on Thursday 5 December from 5.30pm – 7pm aims to empower parents/carers and educators of babies to tweens and teens to take an active role in encouraging literacy development. It is a talk about fostering a lifelong love of reading and language and the vital role of the parent/carer and educators in this.

Award winning teacher-librarian, author and blogger Megan Daley will help you discover:

• how to raise a reader
• the importance of reading aloud
• how to build reading habits into your life
• best books for various age groups
• how to find a book to inspire a reluctant reader
• how to keep a tween reading into adolescent years
• how to tell if a book is age appropriate

Book your place via eventbrite or call 6393 8132.

Discover the incredibly powerful and moving stories of the Anzac kids who lied about their age to fight in the First World War- a unique and deeply personal side of history told here for the first time more than one hundred years on.

Join us for the author talk with Paul Byrnes on Tuesday 26th November at Orange City Library at 5.30pm – 7pm about the untold stories of under-age soldiers in The Lost Boys. 

This event is supported by Collins Booksellers. Please book your place online via eventbrite or call the Library on 6393 8132.

Join us for Library Up Late when we open Orange City Library after hours on Wednesday 20th November 7pm – 9pm with bestselling Australian author of crime thriller Scrublands, Chris Hammer, talking about his new release Silver. He will be in conversation with ABC Central West Radio’s Luke Wong.

This is a special event where we dim the lights, add refreshments and introduce you to the Library after hours. Supported by Collins Booksellers, Orange. Please book your place online via eventbrite or call the Library on 6393 8132. Limited places. See you there!

Former local journalist Mark Filmer has documented the industrial chaos that beset the wool industry when a small group of rebel shearers sought to overturn the ban on wide-toothed shearing combs. It was one of the most violent chapters in Australian rural history. Join Mark at Orange City Library on Wednesday 6th November at 5.30pm – 7pm. Supported by Collins Booksellers, Orange. Please RSVP online via eventbrite or call the Library on 6393 8132.

Blayney Library – Monday 18^th November 11am

Cowra Library – Wednesday 27^th November 2pm