What Zola Did on Monday by Melina Marchetta

Joining Melina and Cheryl Akle on the Book Club panel will be Nikki Christer, publisher at Penguin Random House.īook Club will stream live on our Facebook page at 8pm (AEST) on Wednesday 24th of April, 2019. Melina is one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers, and her latest novel is an unforgettable story about losing love and finding love about the interconnectedness of lives and the true nature of belonging.

This month we’ll be talking to Melina Marchetta about The Place on Dalhousie. There are seven stories in the series altogether and each one is as entertaining as the others.We’re very excited about our next Book Club guest, and we know many of you will be too. Perhaps our new lives may not be so frantic that we don't have time for the simpler pleasures of yesteryear. Because the characters and events are so common, the stories could be the inspiration for children to get together in ways they did in previous generations and be the foundation blocks of a new community as we find new ways to get together in these COVID times. Their everyday lives are just like those of the readers who can see themselves, understand and relate to the friends, while being a stepping stone for consolidating their new reading skills with a solid text combined with lots of illustrations, short chapters and humour. This is the third in this series about Zola and her friends – a diverse group of kids who could live in any neighbourhood, anywhere. A great read for readers aged six and over. Good literature like this celebrates diversity, and how people’s differences are powerful and important, and these differences are what make life interesting and can also bring people together and unite them as a community. It shows that caring about your community will eventually extend to helping and caring about the wider world. These are stories that can be read to younger readers, or read alone, or used to help younger readers build their reading and comprehension confidence.

This is the third book in the series that celebrates diversity, family, dogs, knitting and gardens, and how these simple things can bring a community together. in this lovely and heartfelt diverse series that shows it is the content of your character that is just as important as how you identify, and that together, these aspects make you who you are. This powerful and lovely message is what we need these days. This vibrant world shows kids that everyone is different, and that these differences are everywhere. Highly recommended for little readers from around six years upwards. Your newly independent readers both boys and girls will just adore these stories and they would make fabulous read-alouds for either classroom teachers or teacher-librarians paired with some activities and action plans. This little series is just truly delightful and I know that little readers must love being able to make connections with their own family, friends, schools and communities.

What Zola Did on Monday by Melina Marchetta