Volunteer Ryan meets Malorie Blackman

One of our MyVoice volunteers, Ryan Burns, travelled to London recently with Maria who is one of our librarians.  They joined other volunteers at the ReadingAgency headquarters and Ryan was lucky enough to meet Malorie Blackman who is the author of the popular Noughts and crosses series of novels.  Ryan joined a debate about how historic riots have affected the image of young people and, during the course of the day, joined a discussion on how volunteers are contributing to the work of public libraries around the countries.

Ryan is a regular and much appreciated volunteer at Halton libraries and has helped us with the Summer Reading Challenge for younger children and with other events.  After Malorie gave him some valuable advice about writing, he took home a book that she signed for him.