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01/08/2025

In 2025, National Science Week will run from 9 to 17 August, with events taking place in every state and territory of Australia. Visit your local library to borrow a STEM read and see if they have an event running for National Science Week! How will you science? 🔬📚💙

📘 This Bird: Noticing Our Urban Birds by Astred Hicks with Holly Parsons 🐦

📘 The Butterfly Thief by Walter Marsh 🦋

📘 The Great Australian Science Book by Luke O’Neill 🇦🇺

📘 Prove It: A Scientific Guide for the Post-Truth Era by Elizabeth Finkel 🥼

📘 The Glorious Gut: How It Works and How to Look After It by Dr. Roopa Farooki, illustrated by Viola Wang 🧑‍⚕️

📘 Deadly Science: The Solar System edited by Corey Tutt 🔭

13/07/2025

Looking for more First Nations titles to read this Blak History month? Here are some must-have Junior and Young Adult titles to read and put on your shelf! 🖤💛❤️️

📕 Beyond the Shore - Kirli Saunders, Mark Chester Harding

📕 Moonlight and Dust - Jasmin McGaughey

📕 Cloudmaker - Helen Milroy

📕 Tiwi Girl Hunters Apikirayiwi - Tiwi College Alalinguwi Jarrakarlinga, David Lawrence, Shelley Ware

09/07/2025

This Blak History Month and NAIDOC Week, we’re celebrating Australian First Nations’ titles and authors. Read something powerful, moving, and proudly Blak 🖤💛❤️️

📕 Adventures on the Dreaming Path - Paul Callaghan, Dylan Finney

📕 Tiwi in Paris - Glen Farmer Illortaminni

📕 Tiwi Girl Hunters - Tiwi College Alalinguwi Jarrakarlinga, David Lawrence, Shelley Ware

📕 The Pearl of Tagai Town - Lenora Thaker

07/07/2025

We released our Top Shelf newsletter last month with some pretty long-awaited titles, including former NZ PM Jacinda Ardern’s memoir ✍️, Stephen King’s latest horror ⚖️, and a conservation picture book by Yuin Country’s Luke John Matthew Arnold 🌿. What books are you putting on your shelf? 📚

There’s so much more to explore! Sign up for our monthly Top Shelf—link in bio 🔗

01/06/2025

📚 Meet the Team: Abi

Selecting Team

Abi is one of our go-to Junior YA selectors. After starting at Peter Pal in accessioning, and being an avid bookworm herself (she’s read over 2000 books and counting!), Abi’s an expert in helping to curate quality library collections.

📖 Favourite book?

“The Blue Castle ” by L.M. Montgomery. Abi adores the main character, Valancy Stirling, and thinks this book is totally an underrated classic.

30/05/2025

National Reconciliation Week is a time to reflect on the strength, culture, and resilience of First Nations peoples, as well as our shared responsibility in moving forward together.

To honour National Reconciliation Week, we’re proud to be taking part in Wear It Yellow for Children’s Ground to support education and empowerment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. We’ve also curated some awesome First Nations picks perfect to read and reflect on for not only this week, but every day.

May this week spark ongoing conversations, reflection, and meaningful action 🖤💛❤️

Childrens/YA

📕 Yildaan: Our Dreaming Track by Bud Marshall

📕 Boodja Barna: Land Creatures by Tyrown Waigana & Jayden Boundry

📕 Learning Country: A First Nations Journey Around Australia's Traditional Place Names by Ryhia Dank

Adult Non Fiction

📕 Yawulyu by Megan Morais

📕 Terraglossia by Debra Dank

📕 Main Character Energy by Bianca Hunt

Adult Fiction

📕 A Piece of Red Cloth by Leonie Norrington, Merrkiyawuy Ganabarr-Stubbs, Djawa Burarrwanga & Djawundil Maymuru

📕 I Am Nannertgarrook by Tasma Walton

📕 Red Dust Running by Anita Heiss

08/05/2025

Whether it's your mum, grandma, guardian, or the person who’s always had your back, this weekend’s for them 🌷

Celebrate the ones who’ve helped shape us, raise us, and love us with some must-reads perfect for Mother’s Day, available to order through ClientWeb or borrow today from your local library 📚

Happy Mother’s Day from us here at Peter Pal 💞

21/04/2025

This Earth Day, we’re highlighting titles that celebrate our planet and inspire positive change. You can do your part to spread Earth Day awareness by borrowing one of these titles from your local library or adding them to your collection today 🌿📚

Here at Peter Pal, we’re also doing our bit behind the scenes by minimising packaging waste, prioritising eco-conscious practices by making contributions to organisations like , and supporting greener library shelves across Australia and Aotearoa.

Happy Earth Day—let’s read, reflect, and take that next small step 📖🌏💚

16/04/2025

We’d like to share some exciting Indigenous titles releasing this month 📚 Our selectors have curated collections including new memoirs, cookbooks and fiction, all fantastic and First Nations focused 🖤💛❤️️

Subscribe to our monthly TopShelf newsletter for more Indigenous feature titles—link in bio or copy and paste https://dub.sh/ClientWeb

04/04/2025

No-bunny loves a good book haul more than us! 🐰📚 Fill your basket with these Easter reads—which one will you crack into first? Link in bio 🥚✨

01/04/2025

Suzanne Collins’ latest novel Sunrise on the Reaping from the widely acclaimed series is on the top of everyone’s 2025 TBR pile—has your library got copies yet?

Don't miss out, order for your library now—link in bio or order here: dub.sh/ClientWeb 🐦🏹

28/03/2025

The Names by has been titled ‘the best debut novel in years’ by the Sunday Times. This moving litfic title about family and love is a 2025 must read to preorder before its release in May

Click the link in our bio or head to dub.sh/ClientWeb to order for your library today 📚✨

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