Book covers: Capturing people's attention

Within the cabinet near the staircase and the lift, there are children’s books with humorous and cute covers to entice young readers. Books on display include:

• Labarik ho lafaek– The Boy and the Crocodile is the legend of how the island of Timor got its shape and a parable about kindness. The book was illustrated by artists from Arte Moris and children from the Familia Hope Orphanage in East Timor.
• The Magic Flute and Other Children’s Stories – by modern Chinese authors
• The St Trinian’s Story – Kaye Webb

Literature books appeal to readers through artistic or sensational covers.  The cabinet near the staircase and the lift display books such as:

• Across the River and into the Trees – Ernest Hemingway
• Old Bush Songs– edited by Douglas Stewart and Nancy Keesing
• This is the Mafia – Giuseppe Bannani

To catch readers’ attention, travel books often display stunning natural vistas, or an image linked to the history or culture of a country. In the cabinet near the staircase and the lift, view travel books such as:

• From Peking to Perth
• Prague: guide, information, facts
• Roaming round New Zealand

On display, in the cabinet located near the ‘self-check’ machine, are books such as

• Devils, drug and doctors
• In the Service?: A History of Victorian railway workers and their union
• Selection of anti-apartheid cartoons from around the world
• Streetwize comics

The cabinet in the Learning Hub showcases covers and book series: 

• hardcover books from the series Thinker’s Library published between 1929-1951 by the Rationalist Press Association in London
• series of Little Blue Books designed to fit into a shirt pocket and targeting the educated and working-class American men
• Everyman’s Library book covers designed by London publisher Joseph Malaby Dent
• Charles Dickens’ book covers from Collins’ Pocket Classics
• hardcover books published by Raintree as a library resource to provide equity, inclusivity and accessibility for all learners and communities.