Local Author Mick Both at Mentone Public Library:  "Cooking for Kids by Dads"   - 11am, Saturday, 29th August 2015 Mentone Public Library Proudly Presents  as Part of Our Ongoing Series  "An Author for All Seasons: Series Five" Local Author  Mick Both http://mickskitchen.com.au http://mickskitchen.com.au/about/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooking-for-Kids-by-Dads/534791969989765 Serving up a Nutritiously Satisfying Presentation Complete with the Kids' Tick of Approval! "Cooking for Kids by Dads"                                                       11am,  Saturday 29th August 2015 RSVP: Thursday, 27th August 2015                               "Time is imperative and this book is all about maximising the time spent with your children. "Cooking for Kids by Dads" is laid out like a manual - similar to how you would fix a car, but it will teach you how to

Reflective Entry from Local Author Susan Berg: A Girl Who Lived...and Touched Our Hearts: 11am, Saturday, 25th July 2015   I  was invited to talk about my memoir “The Girl Who Lived” at Mentone Public Library on Saturday 25 th July. I was unsure at first how much I should share with people I had never met - especially when my life has been far from conventional. I decided to tell my story in all its rawness – as I’ve done in my book.   The group of 22 were compassionate.   They understood when my voice wavered, that I wasn’t just reading aloud a story – but that I was reliving my past. I had lost my parents and brother in a boating accident when I was fifteen years of age. I was the sole survivor.   I shared the guilt and grief I had felt over their deaths – for having been the person who was driving the boat when it sank, the person who had left them to go ahead for help. The person who had failed to locate them from the helicopter. The person who had survive