Baw Baw Shire is looking for books for community exchange

Victoria’s Baw Baw Shire is encouraging its residents to donate children’s books to community book boxes popping up across the shire as part of a wider literacy initiative.

Two Paint Baw Baw REaD community book boxes were made by Drouin Men’s Shed and uniquely decorated by local nursery students and placed in the Warragul CBD and Drouin’s Bellbird Park. Five more are in preparation.

The goal of community book boxes is simple: to promote literacy and support children’s love of books. Each box serves as a miniature library and contains a collection of books suitable for children aged zero to twelve.

Easy to use and based on the “take a book, leave a book behind” principle, anyone can take part in the initiative and visit the boxes at any time.

The Bellbird Park box was designed and decorated by the children of Adam Court Kindergarten, with Warragul Community Preschool creating the artwork for the box at the junction of Palmerston and Victoria Sts.

According to a local news source, students from Longwarry Kindergarten, Warragul Early Learning Center and Oak Street Kindergarten have submitted designs for the upcoming Longwarry, Warragul Civic Park and Drouin sites The newspaper divided.

Mary Beck Preschool will create artwork for the Neerim South Box and Grace Berglund Kindergarten will create artwork for the Eastern Park Box.

Adults don’t miss out on the fun either, with the Street Library program running six book boxes across West Gippsland.

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