The Little Bookroom in Carlton North, Victoria, Australia | Book shop

The Little Bookroom

Locality: Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9387 9837

Address: 759 Nicholson Street 3054 Carlton North, VIC, Australia

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

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19.01.2022 Visit us to win print signed by Oliver Jeffers! We're open every day until Christmas! - https://mailchi.mp//visit-us-to-win-a-print-signed-by-oliv

17.01.2022 After a little more than 10 mins browsing? As a special event we're offering a limited number of people a whole hour, after hours. This Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm till 7pm you could be one of 12 people in the shop for a whole hour. Knock over your gift buying in one go, with our staff on hand for recommendations and help. ... But get in quick! We have to limit the spaces to stay COVID-Safe. Wednesday: https://fb.me/e/bqBjJRloN Thursday: https://fb.me/e/3myThQFbq

16.01.2022 Always Was, Always Will Be. #naidoc2020

13.01.2022 A very lovely lady made us these exquisite bookish face masks to thank us for delivering gifts to her nibblings We love them so much! We’re all feeling very grateful to be wearing them in the shop floor, as we make the most of every minute of being open. We’re sending love, strength and solidarity to our South Australian neighbours, and everyone across the world enduring lockdown. Thank you for your sacrifice xx

12.01.2022 Super lovely Zoe Foster Blake popped by for a drive by signing yesterday! Filled our little shop with her amazing energy! Illustrated by Mike Jacobsen, Back to Sleep, is a tale familiar to most parents, told with playful humour. It’s a fun laugh-out-loud that celebrates the ups and downs of family life.... PS Mask only came off for this sweet photo

11.01.2022 It’s here: When We Say Black Lives Matter is an essential picture book for every child’s collection. Written AND illustrated by Maxine Beneba Clarke it is a powerful poem accompanied by striking, bold art. ‘Little one, when we say Black Lives Matter,... we’re saying Black people are wonderful-strong. That we deserve to be treated with basic respect, and that history’s done us wrong.’ And the wondrous-unique Wide Big World is back in stock. The paperback arrived today!

10.01.2022 Arlo is 72 Real Pigeons Get Bready tall! And his level of excitement about reading it is 10 out of 10! Thank you Andrew and Ben, you’ve brought a lot of joy to a lot of readers!

09.01.2022 It’s Watermelon Wednesday! Happy Summer!

08.01.2022 LAST MINUTE REMINDER that our Term 4 Book Chat is happening tonight! Patrick Guest is going to talk about his beautiful, timely book, Windows, sharing with us the story behind the story. Then Michael will run through some of the key recent releases and let you know about some new and exciting offers we've got for Schools and Libraries! Don't miss out!

06.01.2022 Have you heard about our book subscriptions? This is our selection for Preppies! Aussie Kids and Zola are entry points to great series: engaging stories crafted with accessible vocabulary. Ideal for reading aloud, then along with and then alone. Skunk and Badger is an absurdly wonderful illustrated novel for sharing, a rare international inclusion because exceptional.... We’re sending out Summer bundles at the beginning of December, in time to be under the Christmas tree . All the deets: www.littlebookroom.com.au

06.01.2022 Windows is written from Patrick Guest's own experience of having to leave the family home due to his son's Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. With stunning illustrations by Jonathan Bentley it shows how five kids from different parts of the world connect and draw strength from their communities from behind the safety of their own windows. Heartwarming, hopeful and surprisingly funny, it will resonate with families all over the world and become a valuable time capsule of what life w...as like in 2020. We're thrilled that Patrick will be zooming in for our final Book Chat of the year for teachers and librarians. Thanks, as always, to Piccolo Angelo Photography for the gorgeous book portrait! Please join us: Tuesday November 24, 6pm: Book Chat (Online): 2020 The year that was - with Patrick Guest

03.01.2022 Our book subscription are in the ArtsHub Gift Guide!

02.01.2022 This is our Year 5&6 Fiction Subscription! Three exceptional middle grade novels, by Victorian writers, as chosen by us! The perfect gift!... *** The Boy, The Wolf, and the Stars by Shivaun Plozza - Young Bo is charged with a monumental task- freeing the land of its curse by returning the Stars to the sky. He must find three magical keys spread across the land keys that will unlock the cage holding the wolf who ate the Stars. The Lost Soul Atlas by Zana Fraillon - A boy awakens in the Afterlife, with a pocketful of vague memories, a key, a raven, and a mysterious Atlas to guide him as he sets out to piece together the mystery of his final moments The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole’s Book Arcade in Melbourne! When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade and himself in a shocking deal with the mysterious Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes: defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. *** Subscribe before November for delivery early December. Details: https://www.littlebookroom.com.au/subscriptions/

01.01.2022 School Prize Ideas! We're getting asked a lot, so we thought we'd put a list together... https://mailchi.mp//the-latest-from-the-little-bookroom-yn