Runcorn 'then and now'

Would you like to join us for a Slideshow of local photographs with commentary and discussion from local historians Charles Ford and Alex Cowan?  The event is at Halton Lea Library on Wednesday 12 September between 2 and 4pm.  It’s completely free and refreshments are provided.

Admission is by ticket only – to book your place please call Halton Lea Library on 0151 511 7744 or email Sally. 

Hogwarts Hysteria at Halton Lea library

Families enjoyed, colour, cut and stick activities based on Harry Potter characters, adding their own innovations such as a very woolly-faced Crookshanks the cat. Fun was had with some games, pin the tail on scabbers, Ron’s musical chess board (variation on musical chairs), and team game of keeping the golden snitches (golden balloons) in the air. 

Reading Families - The Davies Family

Meet the next of our Reading Families The Davies family from Widnes :John,Hazel,Steph,Jonathan and Ruby.
The family gave us a list of their thirty favourite reads and these are now on display in Widnes Library.

DAVIES FAMILY BOOK CHOICES

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Victoria Hislop  The Island
Jane Eyre         Charlotte Bronte
Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Kim Edwards Memory Keepers Daughter
Joanne Harris Chocolat
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'urbevilles
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Phillips         World Atlas
Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories
David Attenborough Life on Earth
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars
Kathryn Stockett The Help
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Salman Rushdie Shame
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Oliver Jeffers The Heart in the Bottle
Julia Donaldson Room on the Broom
Sam McBratney Guess How Much I Love You?
Michael Morpurgo Why the Whales Came
JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
JR Tolkein The Hobbit
Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic
Robert Louis Stephenson Treasure Island
Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species
Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

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.