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Join us and children all across Australia and New Zealand for National Simultaneous Storytime 2025! Recommended age: Preschool.
National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country.
Now in its 25th successful year, it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy.
Bookings are recommended to save your place in the program.
Please cancel your booking if you are no longer able to attend so we can contact our waitlist.
Bookings close one day prior to the session. If you require assistance, please contact library staff.
Children must be supervised by a responsible person (adult or carer) in our libraries and our programs.
| Mon, Dec 01 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Tue, Dec 02 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Wed, Dec 03 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Thu, Dec 04 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Fri, Dec 05 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Sat, Dec 06 | 9:00AM to 1:00PM |
| Sun, Dec 07 | 2:00PM to 5:00PM |
Waurn Ponds Library is located next to LeisureLink aquatic and fitness centre, over the road from Waurn Ponds Shopping Centre. The modern building features a children’s area on the ground floor with a semi-outdoor reading deck and family room. The first floor offers flexible areas for reading and study, and large non-fiction and young adult collections. Other features include public access PCs, free WiFi, coffee and vending machines, and a meeting room for community hire. Regular Baby, Toddler and Preschool Story Time sessions are held here.
The Geelong Regional Library Corporation acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin nation, and the Gulidjan and Gadubanud Peoples of the Maar nations as the Original Owners of the lands on which our library services operate. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and celebrate First Nations Peoples of this land as the custodians of learning, literacy, knowledge and story.
