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Do you want to meet your Grandma?
Do you want to meet your Grandma?
Do you want to meet your Grandma?
Do you want to meet your Grandma?

Story time

Do you want to meet your Grandma?

45 minutes

Listen online to a lively reading by author SV Middleby, then create your own visual response with materials found around the house.
Dancing with memories video: 58 minutes
Dancing with memories video: 58 minutes
Dancing with memories video: 58 minutes
Dancing with memories video: 58 minutes

Story time

Dancing With Memories

58 minutes

Make some moving memories with us! Dancing With Memories author Sally Yule will join us for a special reading of her book.

Story time

Possum Magic with Mem Fox

52 minutes

Looking to go on an adventure across Australia? Tune in for a reading of the treasured classic, ‘Possum Magic’ read by Mem Fox.

Story Time

A Story of Love

45 minutes

What does love mean to you? Where do we find love? What does love look like?
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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people.

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