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Locality: Bulimba, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 3899 8555

Address: 193 Oxford Street 4171 Bulimba, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 Love this! It'll be stuck in my head all day. Source - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz4tjFG2W98

24.01.2022 The shortlists for the @pmliteraryawards have been announced! Thirty-four of Australias most talented authors, illustrators and historians have been recognised for their contributions to Australian literature. Explore the full 2019 #PMLitAwards shortlist http://bit.ly/2kFy4G3

24.01.2022 For the many schools who study The Giver.

23.01.2022 The 2020 CBCA shortlist has been announced. Email Lisa [email protected] to have the order form emailed to you or you can order directly from the website: https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/c/cbca-shortlist-2020

22.01.2022 Help give the gift of reading to those who need it most

22.01.2022 CBCA Book Week 2020 will be postponed until Term 4, 2020, at a date to be announced very soon. We have made this decision taking into account our members includ...ing schools and libraries, the creator community and the publishing and bookselling industries. The CBCA is committed to remaining relevant and dynamic in a very challenging business, arts and community environment. We will embrace every opportunity to continue our work celebrating Australian children's literature and supporting our stakeholders to do this. #cbca2020 #cbcabookweek2020 #gwynperkins #curiouscreatureswildminds See more

22.01.2022 I was delighted by the response to yesterday's posting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, and it has led me to undertake what follows. When I was a child in the 1940s..., my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away? So...here we go: Sonnet 1 See more

21.01.2022 2019 has been a great year for middle school 11-14 year old reads.

20.01.2022 Tune into Brisbane Libraries Facebook Live tomorrow at 10.30am AEST for a special Author Q&A with Aurealis Awards Shortlisted author Bren MacDibble. We'll be ta...lking about her shortlisted title The Dog Runner, cli-fi for kids and harnessing your creativity!! #LoveOzYA Suitable for young readers and grown ups alike!!

20.01.2022 Vale Steph Bowe. A very sad day for the Australian writing and LoveOzYA communities. In all my dealings with Steph Bowe I found her to be warm, funny, intelligent and kind. Her achievements are incredible for one so young. She will be greatly missed.

19.01.2022 Join the Brisbane Writers Festival team in 2020! Applications for the Youth Ambassador program are now open to participants aged 14 - 24. The BWF Youth Ambassa...dors will champion the Word Play and Love YA program and events. They will be passionate about childrens and/or young adult literature. The role will involve the curation, marketing and/or hosting of selected Word Play and/or Love YA events. Closes 17 February 2020. Image: AJ Betts and 2020 Ambassador Claudia Blomberg https://bwf.org.au/information/become-a-youth-ambassador See more

18.01.2022 Professor Marcia Langton rejects claims by Josephine Cashman that question Bruce Pascoe's Aboriginality and the credibility of Dark Emu.

17.01.2022 Teen reads in 2019 - some of my favourites.

16.01.2022 COVID-19 AND BOOKCLUB Dear T-L Bookclubbers At Riverbend Books we take the health and welfare of our staff and community seriously. Following the recent advice from the WHO for social distancing to stop the spread of COVID-19 we are cancelling our in-store TL Bookclub events for March and April. We will reassess the situation for May as information comes to light.... Although it may feel as though we are living in our own dystopic fiction (my thoughts are heading toward The Road to Winter by Mark Smith and Dry by Neal Schusterman) do not fear, Jane, Suzy and Pauline are working on ways to offer bookclubs to you in an electronic format in the short term. We will be contacting you shortly with further information on this. Many of you will be disappointed not to hear Richard Yaxley speak to us in person. Jane and Pauline will be videoing an in-conversation with Richard and making it available to you later in the week. If you have any burning comments or questions that you would like to pose to Richard please email them to Pauline at [email protected] We would like to take this opportunity to offer our TL Bookclub members free delivery on your bookclub orders. We are happy to post out to you the bookclub choices for April (if you want to choose some other titles to add to the free postage box please let us know). Please email Jen and Lisa at [email protected] to place these orders. We know some people have already paid their membership fees for 2020. We will be in touch with those members to discuss our options. The CBCA shorlist is announced on Tuesday March 31st. We would love to hear your predictions for the winners. We will be sending out ordering information on the day. We hope all our members stay well and safe. As we stay in our homes think of all the books we can read. "Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms." Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland Kind Regards Pauline and Jane The books for April are included in the email that was sent out to all bookclub members today.

15.01.2022 If you are a privileged white person like me, one small positive action we can take this week is to actively support the work of Australia's Indigenous authors... -- reading, educating ourselves and buying their work. If you have older tweens or teens in your life who arent big readers - try watching the Adam Goodes (former AFL player) documentary The Final Quarter which absolutely showcases racism in Australia. https://thefinalquarterfilm.com.au/ Back to books: the wonderful Pauline from Riverbend Books has created for me a list of PICTURE BOOKS JUNIOR READS YOUNG ADULT BOOKS ADULT BOOKS (Fiction and non-fiction) by Indigenous Australian authors. Let's start buying, start reading and educate ourselves. (In my top 5 favourite reads of all time is Swallow The Air by Tara June Winch. Highly recommend for book clubs!!). PICTURE BOOKS >>>>>>> The full catalogue of picture books is here: https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/c/indigenous__65 But here are some of Paulines favourites ... Little Bird's Day - Sally Morgan; illus. Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-little-bir Respect - Aunty Fay Muir; Sue Lawson; illus. Lisa Kennedy https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-respect Family - Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson; illus. Jasmine Seymour https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-family--2 (Coming in July) Cooee Mittigar: A Story on Darug Songlines - Jasmine Seymour; illus. Leanne Mulgo Watson - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-cooee-mitt Wilam: A Birrarung Story - Aunty Joy Murphy; Andrew Kelly; illus. Lisa Kennedy https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-wilam-a-bi Mum's Elephant - Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O'Keefe; illus. Christina Booth https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-mum-s-elep Baby Business - Jasmine Seymour - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-baby-busin No Way Yirrikipayi! - written and illustrated by students from Melville Island with Alison Lester. https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-no-way-yir I Saw, We Saw (Djamarrkuli'wu Yolgnumurru Dhäruk) by Yolgnu students at Nhulunbuy Primary School https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/picture-books-hardbac Coming Home to Country - Bronwyn Bancroft - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-coming-hom Our Home, Our Country - Adam Briggs - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-our-home-o My Culture and Me - Gregg Driese - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/reference-my-culture- Tell em!- Katrina Germein; R. Sullivan; illus. Karen Briggs https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/3-5-yrs-picture-books JUNIOR READS >>>>>>> Sister Heart by Sally Morgan (author of My Place) - suitable for 10+ https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/middle-school-ages-11 Finding our Heart: A Book about the Uluru statement for Young Australians - Thomas Mayor https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-finding-ou Young Dark Emu: A Truer History - Bruce Pascoe - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/history-young-dark-em Wombat, Mudlark and Other Stories - Helen Milroy - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-wombat-mud My Place for Younger Readers - Sally Morgan - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/biography-my-place-fo Who Am I - My Australian Story - Anita Heiss https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/history-who-am-i-my-a My Australian Story: Our Race for Reconciliation - Anita Heiss https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/history-my-australian My Girragundji - Meme McDonald; Boori Monty Pryor https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-my-girragu Nginingawila Ngirramini - Tiwi College Tiwi College Alalinguwi Jarrar https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-nginingawi Black Cockatoo - Carl Merrison; Hakea Hustler - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-black-cock Shallow in the Deep End - Tiwi College Al Alalinguwi Jarrakarlinga https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/5-8-yrs-shallow-in-th YOUNG ADULTS READS >>>>>>>> Shauna's Great Expectations - Kathleen Loughnan https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/teen-ages-15-shauna-s Catching Teller Crow - Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/teen-ages-15-catching Ghost Bird - Lisa Fuller - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/teen-ages-15-ghost-bi Songs That Sound Like Blood - Jared Thomas https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/teen-ages-15-songs-th Swallow The Air by Tara June Winch https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/fiction-swallow-the-a My Father's Shadow - Jannali Jones - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/teen-ages-15-my-fathe The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf - Ambelin Kwaymullina https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/teen-ages-15-the-inte My Place - Sally Morgan - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/biography-my-place--3 Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia - Anita Heiss - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/culture-and-society-g Meet Me at the Intersection - (anthology) https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/short-stories-meet-me Welcome to Country (Youth Edition) An Introduction to our First Peoples for Young Australians - Marcia Langton https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/reference-welcome-to- Becoming Kirralee Lewis - Jane Harrison https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/teen-ages-15-becoming Living on Stolen Land - Ambelin Kwaymullina https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-living-on- Two Ways Strong - the Deadly Mob from Concordia https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/indigenous-two-ways-s ADULT FICTION >>>>>>>>>>> The Old Lie - Claire G. Coleman - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/fiction-the-old-lie-- Terra Nullius - Claire G. Coleman - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/science-fiction-terra The Yield - Tara June Winch - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/fiction-the-yield--14 Homeland Calling - Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices Ellen Van Neeren (editor) https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/poetry-homeland-calli Throat - Ellen Van Neeren - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/poetry-throat--8 Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/fiction-too-much-lip- The White Girl - Tony Birch - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/fiction-the-white-gir Taboo - Kim Scott https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/fiction-taboo--53 Blakwork - Alison Whittaker https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/poetry-blak-work--14 The Drover's Wife - Leah Purcell https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/fiction-the-drover-s- Dancing Home - Paul Collis https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/crime-dancing-home NON-FICTION ADULT >>>>>> Not Just Black and White - Lesley & Tammy Williams https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/biography-not-just-bl Salt : Selected Essays and Stories - Bruce Pascoe - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/essays-salt-selected- Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture - Bruce Pascoe - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/history-dark-emu-abor Talking to My Country - Stan Grant - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/culture-and-society-t Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music - Archie Roach https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/biography-tell-me-why Born Again Blakfella - Jack Charles - https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/biography-jack-charle (pb due in August) Top End Girl - Miranda Tapsell https://store.riverbendbooks.com.au/p/biography-top-end-gir

15.01.2022 We’ve had lots of schools ask us if they can join the Rebel Readers Alliance. We’ve just updated the website so school book clubs can sign up. Head to; https://rebeccasparrow.com/rra/

14.01.2022 Many parents are looking for some great recommendations for their childrens reading. The Childrens Book Council of Australia (CBCA) awards prizes to Australia...n authors and illustrators for books of literary merit. The 2020 Notables (the top 20 books in each category) are a great place to look for wonderful Australian literature. Riverbend Books stocks all these titles. Order them now and we will send them out to you. https://cbca.org.au/news/announcing-the-2020-cbca-notables See more

14.01.2022 Today's the day for the library to sparkle!

14.01.2022 What's this?! A wild Bluey has arrived early! We have plenty of both 'The Beach' and 'Fruit Bat' in store now! . . . .... . #unboxing #bluey #penguinbooks See more

13.01.2022 An interesting perspective: https://teachinghistorymatters.com//why-i-loathe-the-boy/

12.01.2022 RSO packing done for another month!

10.01.2022 We are looking forward to this release on 16 April 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0fMoG0H-dA

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09.01.2022 The Baby-Sitters Club is heading to Netflix! Meet the cast and tell us which baby-sitter you are http://bit.ly/2vcQaEy #BabySittersClub Netflix Family

07.01.2022 We can learn so much from literature.

04.01.2022 $2.99 for these special books for Reading Hour!

04.01.2022 If you want to pick up some author-signed works/artworks etc while donating to a bush fire appeal pop over to Twitter and follow #AuthorsForFireys. How it works: Follow the hashtag Like an item? Make a bid in the author's replies Closes Sat 11 Jan @ 11pm AEDT... Win? Donate! See more

04.01.2022 The sun set yesterday on the beautiful life of Jesse Blackadder. Although weve had weeks to process this inevitable thing, it still seems impossible to believe... Jesse is no longer here. It wasnt long ago when Jesse, Tristan, Sarah, Sam, Sib and I sat around a cafe table, talking about going on a writers retreat together. The plan fell together - we would spend seven days riverside, writing all day, and brainstorming into the night. Maybe wed organise guest speakers. Or run mini masterclasses. It was a writers dream. A few months ago though, in a different world before fires and COVID broke the world into pieces, Jesse told us she couldnt go on the writing retreat. Shed been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and shed be in chemo then. But lets look at a new date when this is all over. When this is all over. We hold onto these ideas - grasping, refusing to imagine the alternative. If youve ever had a child who sat under a Storyboard tee-pee, and discovered a love of writing, then your lives have been touched by Jesse. Jesses reach spread far - into tens of thousands of homes. Her own books were embraced by thousands - kids, adults, historical fiction fanatics. But Jesse also had a burning desire to unlock this passion for words for young people - to give regional kids the opportunity to fall in love with writing. After years of voluntarily running a writers group in Lismore for teens, Jesse explored the possibility of bringing the Story Factory and Valencia 826 model to the Northern Rivers. She would have spent countless hours developing programs and putting in funding applications. Only a person as bright and as dedicated as Jesse could pull off a feat like Storyboard. Not only has the program inspired thousands of young people to love writing, its given regional authors like me gainful employment for the last few years, meaning I havent had to leave my family to put food on the table. Thank you, Jesse for that and a million other things. If you listen to Jesses interviews about her time spent in Antarctica (on multiple occasions), or any of the other adventures shed had, youd imagine someone larger than life. Jesse was that. Her light was brighter than most. But she was also incredibly humble and down to earth. Shed read your rough manuscript with genuine pleasure, and give you the most honest and grounded feedback. She was never on a pedestal. Shed throw herself into the adventure of writing anything that gave her satisfaction. Jesse was talented enough to be high and mighty - but she just wasnt. In the last few weeks, Jesses friends, relatives and colleagues have had the opportunity to celebrate her magnificent life, and share stories of how Jesse touched their lives. I for one am immensely grateful I had the opportunity to not just say goodbye to Jesse, but to tell her how much she meant to me, and how much my life, and others, changed because of her. I still cannot comprehend that Jesses not here in the physical realm. But if anyone lives on long, long after death, its Jesse. My heart is big and swollen for all her knew her. But especially her beloved Andi, who will miss Jesse more than anyone. If you havent already, listen to one of Jesses conversations with Richard Fidler, or read one of Jesses novels, and your life will be touched by Jesse too. Well miss you Jesse. So much.

04.01.2022 Did you know that all the books in the Kids' Reading Guide have been selected by a team of very passionate and knowledgeable booksellers from across Australia. ...We thought you should get to know them. Introducing Pauline who works at Riverbend Books and Teahouse in Brisbane. We asked her to tell us a little about her life as a bookseller and working with children's books. Tell us about your bookshop Riverbend Books is a gorgeous independent bookstore in a renovated Queenslander in the leafy riverside suburb of Bulimba. It's a family owned business that has been running for 21 years. What is your favourite part of selling kids books The part I enjoy most in selling kids books is seeing the excitement in children's faces when you talk to them about books that you have loved. When kids come back to the store and tell you how happy they were with the book they chose that is the icing on the cake! What do you enjoy about being a part of the KRG team? Being part of the KRG team means I get to work with and learn from other booksellers who have a vast knowledge and passion for children's books from all around the country. It's a great way for us to share our love of quality children's literature. What are your favourite 3 books from this years KRG? Is it possible to choose? It's tough but my 3 favourite are: Sick Bay by Nova Weetman (#UQPBooks), This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield (Text Publishing) and The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals #samibaylyart (Hachette Australia Children's Books) Can you remember what your favourite kids book or series was? My favourite series as a child were: Trixie Belden mysteries, Anne of Green Gables and What Katy Did. What books make you happy to see kids buying? Or adults buying for kids? It makes me happy to see kids trying new genres or reading outside of what they would normally read. Seeing children giving something new a go always excites me. What kids book are you reading at the moment or looking forward to reading? I am reading the new Nikki McWatters Author book Saga - the third in the series. #KRG2019 www.kidsreadingguide.com.au

03.01.2022 Some of the best junior reads for 5-10 year olds in 2019

03.01.2022 A roundup of my favourite picture books of 2019.

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01.01.2022 The sun set yesterday on the beautiful life of Jesse Blackadder. Although we’ve had weeks to process this inevitable thing, it still seems impossible to believe... Jesse is no longer here. It wasn’t long ago when Jesse, Tristan, Sarah, Sam, Sib and I sat around a cafe table, talking about going on a writers’ retreat together. The plan fell together - we would spend seven days riverside, writing all day, and brainstorming into the night. Maybe we’d organise guest speakers. Or run mini masterclasses. It was a writer’s dream. A few months ago though, in a different world before fires and COVID broke the world into pieces, Jesse told us she couldn’t go on the writing retreat. She’d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and she’d be in chemo then. But let’s look at a new date when this is all over. When this is all over. We hold onto these ideas - grasping, refusing to imagine the alternative. If you’ve ever had a child who sat under a Storyboard tee-pee, and discovered a love of writing, then your lives have been touched by Jesse. Jesse’s reach spread far - into tens of thousands of homes. Her own books were embraced by thousands - kids, adults, historical fiction fanatics. But Jesse also had a burning desire to unlock this passion for words for young people - to give regional kids the opportunity to fall in love with writing. After years of voluntarily running a writers group in Lismore for teens, Jesse explored the possibility of bringing the Story Factory and Valencia 826 model to the Northern Rivers. She would have spent countless hours developing programs and putting in funding applications. Only a person as bright and as dedicated as Jesse could pull off a feat like Storyboard. Not only has the program inspired thousands of young people to love writing, it’s given regional authors like me gainful employment for the last few years, meaning I haven’t had to leave my family to put food on the table. Thank you, Jesse for that and a million other things. If you listen to Jesse’s interviews about her time spent in Antarctica (on multiple occasions), or any of the other adventures she’d had, you’d imagine someone larger than life. Jesse was that. Her light was brighter than most. But she was also incredibly humble and down to earth. She’d read your rough manuscript with genuine pleasure, and give you the most honest and grounded feedback. She was never on a pedestal. She’d throw herself into the adventure of writing anything that gave her satisfaction. Jesse was talented enough to be high and mighty - but she just wasn’t. In the last few weeks, Jesse’s friends, relatives and colleagues have had the opportunity to celebrate her magnificent life, and share stories of how Jesse touched their lives. I for one am immensely grateful I had the opportunity to not just say goodbye to Jesse, but to tell her how much she meant to me, and how much my life, and others, changed because of her. I still cannot comprehend that Jesse’s not here in the physical realm. But if anyone lives on long, long after death, it’s Jesse. My heart is big and swollen for all her knew her. But especially her beloved Andi, who will miss Jesse more than anyone. If you haven’t already, listen to one of Jesse’s conversations with Richard Fidler, or read one of Jesse’s novels, and your life will be touched by Jesse too. We’ll miss you Jesse. So much.