Event Info
Date and time
| Saturday 10 October 2026 | 9am - 2pm |
Love Your Bookshop Day is this Saturday, 10th October, and Red Kangaroo Books are getting ready for a day of love, for the shop and for our community!
Throughout the day, there’ll be plenty of in-store activities to join in with:
***Storytime!
At 10.30am, storytime for little ones, and big ones can enjoy it too!
With local authors Samantha Campbell (illustrator) and Jo Nixon, who will be reading from their gorgeous books. Samantha will read Big Big Love and Jo will read Where’s My Beanie?
***Colouring in Competition
Pick up a colouring sheet in the shop. Entries need to be handed in by 12 noon 10th October. Prizes are 3x $25 gift vouchers.
***Find Wally!
Wally will be hiding somewhere in-store. Can you find him? Find Wally and become a certified Wally-Watcher, and receive one ‘I found Wally Badge’ and participation certificate (while stocks last).
***Win $1,000 Bookshop Gift Card
Thanks to Letterwing, one lucky reader will win a $1,000 Love Your Bookshop Gift Card to spend at participating ABA member bookshops.
To enter, customers simply need to visit an ABA member bookshop on Love Your Bookshop Day, Saturday 10 October, purchase a book by an Australian author or illustrator, keep their proof of purchase and enter on the LYB website. Choose a book by a First Nations creator and they’ll receive a double entry.
More information here - https://loveyourbookshop.org.au/competitions/win-a-1000-love-your-bookshop-gift-card/
***Libro.fm Golden Ticket!
Keep your eyes peeled for a hidden Golden Ticket! You could win 12 free audiobook credits from our friends at Libro.fm.
***Thames & Hudson offer
Buy two T&H titles, receive a free copy of the game At the Bookshop, exclusive to ABA bookshops, only available on LYBD (Saturday 10th October) and while stocks last.