Lifeline Bookfest Brisbane

Welcome to Lifeline Bookfest Brisbane, the largest secondhand book sale in Queensland.

9 am—6 pm 26 June—4 July

Early start, 26 June & 27 June, opening at 8 am

Bookfest up late, 2 July, closing at 9 pm

To keep you safe, Bookfest will be more spread out across three halls (that means no $1 section this year).

Numbers in the halls will be restricted, but don’t worry, we have 18 months’ worth of books to share and we’ll be restocking (补充货源) daily, so you won’t miss out. Once we reach capacity in the halls, it will be one in, one out.

Sales will be card-only. Sorry for kids who were used to spending their saved cash on their favorite books in the past few years.

At Bookfest you’ll find a $2.5 section and a High-Quality section. Books in the High-Quality section range from $4 to $25, and our Rare and Collectible books are individually priced.

You can hire a trolley (推车) at the event to do your shopping ($2 trolley hire).

You can donate new, used or unwanted books. Baskets will be available at the event (next to the entrance) for book donations.

Neil Gaiman is an English author of lots of science fiction and fantasy works.【小题1】His argument is that children shouldn’t be discouraged from reading what adults may think of as bad books. He is dead right.

A child in a library is an explorer venturing into a land where he has no map to guide him. This is part of the excitement. Everything is new.【小题2】His taste is yet unformed, and it cannot be formed until he has tried a variety of thing.

Not knowing what books are good or bad, an eager child will try very different things. 【小题3】At the age of eleven or twelve, I still read Enid Blyton Stevenson’s Kidnapped, was happily terrified by ghost stories and desperately wanted to be Rupert of Hentzau, a most attractive evil character in literature.

A child reads for enjoyment from all sorts of books. I can’t remember when I stopped reading comics like the Wizard and Hotspur, but I’m pretty sure that my reading of them continued even while I was delighted in Sherlock Holmes or in the short stories of HG Wells.

【小题4】 Never say “Don’t read that rubbish” or “You’re too young for that”. If he is really too young and the book is beyond him, he’ll put it aside. If he doesn’t, then he’s not too young, even if he misses much that an adult reader would find in it.

The only useful thing an adult can do is to give a child a book and say, “I think you might enjoy this.” Don’t complain if he doesn’t like it and turns to something that you think is bad. 【小题5】