Join Mike from the National Library Bookshop as he reads 'Bowerbird Blues' for National Simultaneous Storytime 2024.

We read 'The Truck Cat' for National Simultaneous Storytime 2025.

An 1827 illustration of an echidna has recently been added to our collection.

Katherine Kovacic

Susannah Fullerton discusses her newest book Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them.

Judith Wright, introduction by Meredith McKinney

Professor Libby Robin launched her latest book What Birdo is That? A Field Guide to Bird People, a book that draws heavily on the National Library's collections.

Learn about the treatment work our conservators have recently done on thepattern plates for the supplement to The Birds of Australia by John Gould.

Julie Murphy, illustrated by Annie White

Learn more about the children's book Dog Beach and and important jobs that Aussie dogs have done over time.

919 watercolours and gouaches of flowers and birds of Australia and Papua New Guinea painted between 1870 and 1920, plus a small quantity of personal papers.

Topic

Authors have used the beauty, harshness and problems of our land to tell their stories, often basing their stories in familiar locations and using their reaction to a particular environment as the central theme.