The Reading Activists group is
coming to Selsdon Library, and the launch will be on the 8th of June from 3-5 pm.
Gareth P. Jones, author of books such as ‘Constable and Toop’, the ‘Ninja Meerkats’ series and ‘the Considine Curse’ will be speaking at the event, and may even get out his guitar!
You are all invited to come along, and we hope to see you there!
Feel free to print out a copy of this poster, and ask others along:
Many libraries don’t have good reading groups aimed at children. Lots have writing groups and host all manner of activities, but forget to promote and encourage one of the main functions of libraries: reading. Ashburton library, as of this Saturday (18/05/13) will be holding a monthly meeting for people aged 11-19, where we will discuss a specific book. This Saturday, we will be discussing ‘Uglies’ by Scott Westerfeld.
If you haven’t read the book, don’t worry! Come along anyway, and you can still have a look, and join in the discussion based on your first impressions of the book, etc. We will have copies of the book with us to have a look at, and you can suggest books for us to read in the future.
We will also be looking at the books we bought during the book pick at Waterstones – A group of teenagers went on a trip to Waterstones, where we selected new books for the library – and giving away copies of books from World Book Night.
We hope to see you there! The meeting is from 2.30-4.00pmish, and refreshments will be served.
World Book Night is coming up s
oon, on the 23rd April, and there are many ways you can get involved. Places all over the UK are holding events to celebrate reading and books.
World Book Night celebrates reading and books, and sees tens of thousands of passionate volunteers gift specially chosen and printed WBN books in their communities to share their love of reading.
Each year, 20,000 volunteers are recruited to hand out 20 copies of their favourite book from the World Book Night list to members of their community who don’t regularly read. World Book Night aims to reach the millions of people in the UK who have not yet discovered the joys of reading, in the hope that they will fall in love with a book, and begin to embark on their reading journey.
In addition, World Book Night distributes half a million books directly to the hardest to reach potential readers in prisons, care homes, hospitals, sheltered, supported and social housing, the homeless and through partner charities working throughout the UK. It is about giving books and encouraging reading in those who don’t regularly do so.
Why April 23?: It is a symbolic date for the world of literature. It is both the birth and death day of Shakespeare, as well as the death day of Cervantes, the great Spanish novelist. It also marks the city of Barcelona’s celebration of St George’s Day. St George is the patron saint of Catalonia as well as England and traditionally, to celebrate this day, Spanish gentlemen gave their ladies roses and the ladies returned the favour with a book. Considering the literary history of this day, it seems fitting that April 23rd should be chosen as the day of celebrating the reading and giving of books!
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