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Squishy Minnie Bookstore

Locality: Kyneton, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5460 1420

Address: 6 High St 3444 Kyneton, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.squishyminnie.com.au

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23.01.2022 Last Online storytime this morning at 10.30am Good morning book friends! This is it! Our last zoom storytime! A big day for us and a moment of reflection regarding how much has changed since we started online storytimes in March. Join Lucky this morning to hear him read these three glorious stories, How to be a Real Ballerina by Davina Bell and Jenny Lovlie, I Want to be a Superhero by Breanna Humes and Amberlin Kwaymullina and the classic Room on the Broom by Julia Don...aldson and Axel Scheffler. Big thank you to everyone who has joined in along the way this year and of course a huge thank you to all the authors, illustrators, publishers and the book community who have allowed us to read their books online. THANKYOU! The link for today is - Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87170046605 Meeting ID: 871 7004 6605 Passcode: squishy

22.01.2022 There are quite a lot of folks choosing book gifts for Christmas at the moment, it's always such fun helping select surprise books for young readers! Just a little reminder that we have layby and we LOVE it!

21.01.2022 A quick reminder that we are CLOSING early today at 3.45pm so that our last two bookclubs of the year can meet face to face here in Squishy! Thank you all for your understanding, we reopen tomorrow morning at 10am. This afternoon our grade 6 bookclub are chatting about We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad AND When Rain Turn to Snow by Jane Godwin while our High School group are discussing This is How We change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield. Three spectacular books, we are so looking forward to hear our book clubbers thoughts.

19.01.2022 Hello bookish friends! Just a reminder that we are still doing free delivery in Kyneton, along with $5 delivery around the Macedon Ranges plus Trentham and Daylesford https://www.squishyminnie.com.au/home-delivery/ You can order via our website shop for delivery, pick up or postage ... https://shop.squishyminnie.com.au/ We're looking forward to welcoming back Melbourne friends this week For anyone a little nervous about being in Squishy with others around we still have browsing bookings available for Sunday (where you book for your household to have Squishy to yourselves for twenty minutes) https://www.squishyminnie.com.au/in-store-browsing

17.01.2022 FINAL ONLINE STORYTIME The time has come to finish up our online storytimes, with tomorrow being our last live zoom storytime. We will be moving back to instore storytime over the next couple of weeks, we'll let folks know the details as you will need to book in due to space restrictions. It'll be glorious to have little faces back in Squishy but we will miss our online community. Thank you all so much for joining us on a Thursday morning for the last seven months, it has be...en joyous in the midst of an uncertain time. A special extra big thank you to storytime regulars who have purchased books via our online shop as a thank you for Lucky's hard work in keeping storytime going, it's really kind and thoughtful of you. Getting the little notes on online orders from folks saying their small humans are enjoying storytime has kept out hearts full We'll post the last zoom link and the three storytime books in the morning and we'll see you online at 10.30am tomorrow, and hopefully back in Squishy very soon

14.01.2022 Over the last week three of our bookclubs, the Grade 4, Grade 5 and the Grade 6 groups have all read the same book - We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad. We were thrilled to finally meet face to face back in Squishy after a year of Zoom meetings and celebrated with milkshakes from our mates at Donkey Kyneton. Katrina joined ALL THREE bookclubs via zoom to answer any questions the groups may have had. How is that for generosity and commitment to young folks reading experiences?...!?! Katrina had some beautiful responses to questions, and although she didn't get to enjoy a milkshake it was a real treat to have her be part of our final bookclubs of the year. Thank you so much to Katrina and all the authors and illustrators who have taken time to nurture young readers in our bookclubs this year. It's such a special experience for regional young people to connect with book creators! If you haven't heard of We Are Wolves yet, check it out. Perfect for ages 10 + it is a historical fiction from the perspective of a young German girl, Liesl, during the war. "Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe. But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things. Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf." https://shop.squishyminnie.com.au/p/middle-fiction-ages-8-1?

14.01.2022 NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the Macedon Ranges Youth Awards!! If you are, or you know, a young person doing great things that should be recognised then make su...re you nominate them. It’s easy and you can do it online - www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/youthawards

14.01.2022 Our opening hours for the rest of the year are sorted! Mondays - CLOSED Tuesday - Saturday 10am until 4.30pm Sunday 10am until 1pm... Our online store remains open 24/7 as always and we continue to home delivery in Kyneton and around the Macedon Ranges We will be holding off on restarting story time until the end of January - it will be via a booking system so we can monitor numbers in Squishy. As always thank you to you all for being so delightful this year, we are sending so much love out to our little book community.

08.01.2022 Happy Friday bookish friends - we hope life is being kind to you at the moment! Squishy is open today, Friday, and tomorrow, Saturday, from 10 until 4.30

04.01.2022 Throughout this wild year an abundance of excellent Australian books have been published for kids and young adults. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dangerous Animals by Sami Bayly is one such book The scientific illustrations by Sami Bayly are nothing short of extraordinary and this is truly a non fiction book that will be appreciated by young folks and grown ups alike. Perfect for ages 8+... "With more than sixty of the most deadly and dangerous animals from across the world to explore, every page of this beautifully illustrated volume is more eye-opening than the last. You will learn interesting facts about these fascinating species, (many of which you won't have even known were deadly) such as how they have adapted to survive and whether we should be threatened by these animals or appreciate them for their incredible features."

03.01.2022 This afternoon Ellie and I hosted the final bookclubs of the year for our Grade 4 and Grade 5 groups. It was the first time we'd met face to face since March, and gosh it was a joy! We had milkshakes from Donkey to celebrate and I got just a little teary when the Grade 4 group made a pact at the end of bookclub that they will all join again next year. The resilience of these kids is astounding, their empathy huge and their humour, sense of fun and enthusiasm infectious Sin...ce we closed in March we have facilitated 18 bookclubs online for Grades 4, 5, 6 and Years 7 -9, plus Connie has conducted 12 remote bookclubs online for Grade 5 and 6's at Lancefield, Romsey and New Gisborne Primary Schools. We organised and hosted 14 online workshops for kids and young people with seven different authors and illustrators, Andrew McDonald, Daniel Gray-Barnett. Jane Godwin, Nova Weetman, Jess Racklyeft, Bren MacDibble and Ailsa Wild. We've had 5 Zoom Storytime author events including one event with 13 Australian authors who had all published books during 2020. Finally Lucky has managed 30 storytimes which means he has read 90 picture books (and sung sleeping bunnies at least 30 times!!). What. A. Year. It's such a wonderful treat to have young readers back together talking about books with such enthusiasm. It feels like they bring Squishy back to life

01.01.2022 Book gang we are closing at 3.45 today so that our Grade 4 and 5 bookclubs can meet here in person at Squishy. Thanks for your understanding, we'll be open again from 9.30am Friday

01.01.2022 If you haven't already heard the most wonderful news - this Sunday at 9.30am we are hosting a live zoom storytime with Jane Godwin and Alison Lester who are reading us their exquisite brand new picture book Sing Me the Summer. This events pulls on my heartstrings for a number of reasons, firstly my love for Jane Godwin is well known! Initially it was just for Jane's books but over the last three years we have slowly gotten to know her as a human and gosh, she is thoughtful, ...clever, kind and funny! Everything Jane has been involved in with Squishy is a joyful experience, and we all need some joy right now. Secondly this is the first event we will have had with Alison Lester, but small Kristen would be beside herself. As a child one of my happiest memories was camping right near where Alison's book Magic Beach is based, so I have always been a bit of a fan girl. To say I am excited about hearing these two fantastic women read us their book on Sunday would be an understatement. It is also quite apt that I will be taking our just turned four year old away on her very first camping trip over the weekend and her and I will be joining in the zoom storytime from our tent in Northern Victoria. Anyhow - JOIN US! Old, Young, families, teachers, carers, ANYONE who needs a beautiful story in their life right now is welcome! After the book reading there will be a craft activity (you'll find little list of supplies needed below). Let's show these two fabulous woman all the love we can muster! Zoom details are - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82833219920 Meeting ID: 828 3321 9920 Passcode: squishy Supplies needed for the optional craft activity - -coloured paper (origami paper is great) OR kids could have painted some white paper and let it dry beforehand - string - scissors - glue - textas or coloured pencils - a shell, bead, button or sinker - or any small object that could act as a weight so that the mobile hangs nicely