Mentone Public Library's   "An Anniversary Celebration for All Seasons"  Continues its 95th Anniversary  Festivities Online with Another Showcase  in Our    Zoom Room.   This Month  We Wine & Dine on  all Things  Literary & Fine  as we Hear the Newest Works of  Husband &  Wife Writing Duo Graeme & Elsie  Johnstone Mentone Public Library's Zoom Room  is able to Welcome  97  Guests  for this Event.   Bookings are Essential.   The Zoom Link for This Event  will be Emailed 48  Hours  Before Being Served to  All Who Have Booked. We Invite you to Open a Bottle of Chardonnay & Set Before you a Cheese Platter  to Enrich the Evening's Delectable Entertainment of  Poetic Musings & Conversation 🌝   TO BOOK:   Email:   mentonepubliclibrary@gmail.com Phone: (03)  9005 6300 Entry: FREE Time: 7.30-8.30pm ( Melbourne time ) . Date: S

A Zoom Review: Children's  (Early Bird)  Book Week  Online Showcase INTRODUCTION: REVIEW PART ONE: Meet George Ivanoff by Nathaniel Davies https://www.facebook.com/daviesnathanielj George , a highly experienced author, is a wonderful mentor for young writers. In this event he was promoting his recent non-fiction works consisting of  “The Australia Survival Guide”   and soon to be released  “The Human Body Survival Guide”,  which comes out on 15 September 2020 ,  while also interviewing the two younger authors.  George’s presentation was light, humorous and charismatic with funny and entertaining readings  from the two books mentioned.  The books are both in the same style and formatting with different colours, and both use the same modern, young fictional character’s point of view:  “The Australia Survival Guide” to describe  “How Australia is trying to kill you!”;  and the next book,

Legends of the Skies (LOTS) Theatre Inc Zoom Review by  Paul Karp Visit Paul Karp's Poetry Website at: https://kapow2016.wordpress.com/  Julia salutes the LOTS Cabin Crew & Passengers Well done, Julia on another entertaining and  professional job at emceeing  the Legends of  the Skies Theatre  Zoom session. It was good to see Cr Rosemary West in the  audience indicating continued council  interest  in this exemplary  digital community outreach. Great to see Justine Gorny  in full voice  singing the  LOTS introductory theme song. Click the play button below to watch: I enjoyed Maggie Morrison’s poetic tribute to  the captain and crew of the  Costa Victoria cruise ship she  was on in the Mediterranean Sea when the  COVID-19 crisis flared in March – I originally  heard this poem read by Maggie live on  ABC Radio . Alison and