Tea dance at Halton Lea library

Come along to Halton Lea library for an afternoon of music and dancing (line and sequence). Complimentary tea and scones will be served. Come with or without a partner!

The event takes place on Friday 5 October 2 to 4pm. Places are limited so booking is essential.  Please email Sally or phone 0151 511 7744 to reserve your place.  We're sorry but admission will not be granted without a ticket.

'Make and Take' at Halton Lea library

Artists from Hazlehurst’s Studios in Runcorn will be hosting an afternoon of printing using a mixture of wooden blocks and cardboard reliefs to create unique booklets or cards. No experience needed – come along and have a go! Complimentary tea and scones will be provided.

The event takes place on Thursday 4 October 1 to 3pm at Halton lea library.  Places are limited so booking is essential. Please email Sally or phone 0151 511 7744 to reserve your place.

Open day at Halton Lea library

To celebrate UK Older People's Day, Halton Lea library is offering people over 55 the chance to come along and find out what the library can offer them.

Free activities will include calligraphy, card making and IT taster sessions. Staff will be on hand to join new members, give library tours and provide information about the many services the library can offer including IT lessons, reading groups and more. Staff from Age UK, Alzheimer's Society and NHS Open Mind will all be available to answer your questions.

The event takes place on Wednesday 3 October 1 to 3 pm.  All customers aged 55 or over who are in the building then will receive a voucher for a free hot drink which can be redeemed in the Starbucks coffee bar.

Perfect Places

Halton Libraries are taking part in a poetry promotion called ‘Perfect Places : Your library-your perfect place for poetry’ that is running in North West Public Libraries during autumn 2012.  12 poems inspired by the NW region and written by poets living and working in the NW have been selected for the promotion and are available in postcard format from your local library.  As part of this promotion poet Eleanor Rees will be reading a specially commissioned poem (and from her other works) to commemorate the opening of Runcorn Library on National Poetry Day 4th October at Runcorn Library from 7pm

Eleanor Rees was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in 1978. Her pamphlet collection Feeding Fire received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her first full length collection 'Andraste’s Hair' (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards. Her second collection ‘Eliza and the Bear’ (Salt, 2009) is also a live performance for voice and harp which has toured in the North West. Rees works in the community as a poet and is also studying for an AHRC funded PhD University of Exeter in the theory and practice of the local poet. She often collaborates with other writers, musicians and artists and works to commission. She lives in Liverpool. 

Pinterest sparked in Halton's Libraries Halton Libraries Pinterest page

Halton Borough Council's Library Service has launched a Pinterest site - to share images of event and projects - in line with it's reputation at being at the forefront of digital media. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard that allows users to post images to share with others. Halton Libraries will use it to mostly promote books and reading; with boards for new books, upcoming books it plans to buy and books in promotions like the current Halton Reading Families. http://pinterest.com/haltonlibraries/ Users on Pinterest can browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections or 'like' photos. Pinterest's mission is to "connect everyone in the world through the 'things' they find interesting" via a global platform of inspiration and idea sharing. You can already follow Halton Borough Council's libraries on Twitter and Facebook.

3rd Eye Paranormal Investigations – Sceptics v Believers

Join 3rd Eye Paranormal Investigations (from Sky Channel showcase 201) at Widnes Library for an evening of debate and discussion about the paranormal and the chance for 2 people from the audience to join the team on one of their future televised investigations 

3rd Eye Investigators include sceptics, believers and a medium who will put forward their arguments for the existence, or not, of the paranormal and will be sharing some of their own experiences.

The team will be showing some of their footage captured on past investigations including their latest, shot at Bodelwyddan Castle that recently shown on SKY and now available on DVD.

The event is at Widnes Library on 20th September from 7 to 9pm.  It's free  and no booking is required.

Halton's Reading Families - The Smith Family

Charlotte

Two beautiful reviews from Charlotte aged 7 who, with her Mum, is taking part in our Reading Families project.  We think they are wonderful. Thank you Charlotte :)

The Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen and Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

I like this book because it has a lion that visit’s the library. How the lion likes to listen to the stories at the library with the children, and that they like to cuddle the lion, especially when he is sad. The lion has feelings just like us.

I like the pictures as they look like they have just been drawn. I like the way the lion is drawn big and cuddly, and the way he is shown roaring. I like the colours, especially on the books, and how the lions tongue is drawn where he licks the stamps.

Every library should have a lion.

The Minpins by Roald Dahl and Illustrated by Patrick Benson

I like this book because of the small minpins that live in the trees and fly on birds.  I don’t like the gruncher that breaths fire and is scary.  He tries to eat the little boy and the minpins.  I like the swan that Billy flies on.

I like the way the pictures show the dark and light between the forest and where Billy’s house is.  How it shows how small the minpins’ rooms are in the trees, and all the pretty birds.  Even though I don’t like the gruncher I like the way the smoke and fire hides him in the trees.

I’m glad the gruncher doesn’t live in the woods any more.