For Children

E-Books for Kids

Read and play with stories in a whole new way! Try out this collection of TumbleBooks - online animated, talking books and Tumble-Puzzles and games.

Better Beginnings subscribes to TumbleBooks to support families in sharing a love of reading. 

The Place

The Place is open when the library is open - come aong to share stories, look at original picture book art, and explore digital stories on the computers.

For more information, check What's On The Place.

We also have cool activities every school holidays, author visits and more. Acitivities are for kids aged zero to twelve. Have a look at  What's On.

Children's Book Week

Every year in August we take part in this national festival celebrating wonderful Australian children's books and reading!  

Find out more from the Children's Book Council.

Writing Competitions for Kids

Are you a budding Tim Winton or Elaine Forrestal?  Then you may be interested in entering one of the young writer's competitions organised by Western Australian public libraries.

• The Mary Durack Award
• The Tim Winton Award for Young Writers
• The Randolph Stow Young Writers Award
• Make Your Own Story Book Competition

The Mary Durack Award
Established by the Shires of Mundaring, Kalamunda and the Cities of Armadale and Swan in 1979, with the responsibility of the award rotating to a different council each year.
Entrants must reside or attend a school in the Shires of Swan, Mundaring or  Kalamunda, or Cities of Armadale or Swan to be eligible.
For more information contact:

Swan - Tel: 08 9267 9020; Email: midland-library@swan.wa.gov.au
Mundaring - Tel: 08 9295 1275
Kalamunda - Tel: 08 9257 9969
Armadale - Tel: 08 9399 0125 

The Tim Winton Award for Young Writers
The Tim Winton Award was established in 1992 by the City of Subiaco.  Entrants need to reside in metropolitan Perth and be between the age of six and seventeen.
For more information:

Visit the web site or ring the Evelyn H. Parker Library - Tel: 08 9381 5088

The Randolph Stow Young Writers Award
In 1989 the Geraldton Midwest Regional Group of ALIA and the Geraldton Regional Library inaugurated this award as a project to encourage young writers and to promote awareness and use of their public library.
For more information contact:

Geraldton Library Service - Tel: 08 9956 6659

Make Your Own Story Book Competition
This competition is organised by the Children's Book Council of Australia (WA Branch) annually.
For more information contact:

Children's Book Council (WA Branch Inc)
P.O. Box 473
West Perth  WA  6872

or look at the website here.

For more information on any of the above competitions please email: children.spec@slwa.wa.gov.au or check the websites for each of the local councils that coordinate the awards.