Summer Reading Challenge

Here is a picture taken at the latest Summer Reading Challenge event. This one was at Ditton library on Friday 10 August.  The theme of the event was 'Around the World'.  The children (and adults!) had lots of fun making fans, totem poles and peacocks.

Reading Families Project - The Rosneys

The Rosney family's collection

Meet the first of our Reading Families The Rosney family: Mark, Michelle and teenager Tom who signed up for the project. The family gave us a list of their thirty favourite reads and these are now on display in Halton Lea Library. When we asked then what reading meant to them Michelle said:

"I find it expands the imagination by transporting you to different times and places, it takes you to different worlds, places that you would never normally go, and with a good author you can picture their words in your head and see what they are describing. I love reading."

Mark added:

"Words on a page are like paints waiting to form pictures on the canvas of the mind. Reading makes us all artists, shaping our own internal landscapes in order to know ourselves better."

 Here are their choices for the Rosney collection:

Michelle

• Scepticism Inc - Bo Fowler
• The Waiting Room - G Cottham
• The Tooth Fairy - Graham Joyce
• The Beautiful Dead (1-4) - Eden Maguire
• Vampire Diaries - L J Smith
• On the Edge -  Richard Hammond
• Anything Goes - John Barrowman
• The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
• Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
• Gump & Co - Winston Groom
• The Savage Garden - Mark Mills

Tom

• Holes - Louis Sachar
• Mass Effect: Deception - William C Dietz
• Mass Effect: Ascension - Drew Karpyshyn
• Mass Effect: Revelation - Drew Karpyshyn
• Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
• Star Wars: Imperial Commando - Karen Traviss
• Watchmen (Graphic Novel) - Alan Moore
• Halo: Ghost of Onyx = Eric Mylund
• Nerd Do Well - Simon Pegg
• The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S.Lewis

Mark

• The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
• Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
• Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
• The Technicolour Time Machine - Harry Harrison
• Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -  Douglas Adams
• The Song of Phaid the Gambler - Mick Farren
• The Forever War - Joe Haldemann
• Radio Romance - Garrison Keiller
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon

Crafts around the world at Widnes library

Around twenty people joined us for another fun day at Widnes as part of the Summer Reading Challenge.  Activities included colouring, making fans, totem poles, Indian headreses and peacocks.

Children and staff were all excited and a bit tired by the end of the event, but everyone agreed they wouldn't have missed it.  We hope you were there.

Book sale at Halton Lea library

Our next book sale will be at Halton Lea library.  You can buy used books from just 20p.

The sale is on Friday 24 August from 9am to 6.30pm and Saturday 25 August from 9am to 12.30pm.

Summer Reading Challenge

How have you been getting on with the Summer Reading Challenge?  Here is a picture of two of our readers who are amongst first finishers to receive their certificate for reading six books during the holidays.

Reading Families

Does your family love reading?

Halton Libraries are looking for families to take part in an exciting new project which will allow you to share your family’s favourite books, not only locally, but with the online reading community.

The project is part of a national scheme supported by The Reading Agency and the Publishers Association who are working with a number of different library services to explore creative ways in which to pass on our passion for reading to other readers via digital platforms such as websites, Twitter and Facebook.

We are working with Lancashire library service, Time to Read and three publishers, Faber, Harper Collins and Raintree.

As a family we’d ask you to choose 30 books to comment about and we will be highlighting these through displays in our libraries and as recommended reads on the library catalogue, blog and Facebook page. All three publishers will be supplying books for you to read and pass comment on as well.

To nominate your family please contact janette.fleming@halton.gov.uk

Digital job hub @ Halton library

Fancy brushing up on your IT skills to help your job search? The digital job hub is every Friday at 10am at Halton Lea Library in meeting room 5. The job hub will help job seekers use the internet to search for jobs, apply online for benefits and create CVs using the National Careers Service website. Places are limited so you will need to book a place.  Call us on 511 7744 or email Helen.