Library News
The’ competition is here. 8 to 14 year olds, there is $50 up for grabs. Come and see us at Martinborough Library and get an entry form and you could be in to win. We are also having a few ‘spot’ competitions on Facebook and in the library with books to be won. Of course the competitions are all part of promoting literacy which is one of the aims of the library.
We start very young in encouraging reading with the preschool sessions on Monday and Tuesday mornings. Our children have such an advantage in life if they are introduced to books at an early age. Babies use all their senses when being read to and love the closeness of the contact and although I keep saying it – this helps to connect brain cells in that early growth period. If you want more intelligent children then read to them immediately you come home from hospital and continue until they leave home! That’s my rant for today.
Meanwhile I have just been to the quarterly bookseller from Random House (publisher) and filled the boot of my car up (and it is a big boot!). There are now big piles of books strategically placed around the library waiting to be processed. If you wish to have a preview and put your name down for some of them, then please do so. They will be trickling out to the shelves over the next few weeks.
Among those are lots of Australian women authors – a bestselling genre at the moment. Also lots of new interior decorating books as well as magazines currently flying around the library. If you managed to visit us for the Pink Ribbon Breakfast, then thank you very much. All up we raised over $120. That’s all for today folks.
Have fun and enjoy the weather! Shirley
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