New Year in Knowsley
We are looking forward to 2011 in Knowsley. Huyton Library has been refurbished and has a new layout with reader development principles firmly in the foreground. We are planning to promote our top ten reads, as voted for by our customers over the summer, on World Book Day. Our Top Ten are;
- To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
- Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Diary of Ann Frank - Ann Frank
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- The Stand Stephen King
- Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
- The Time Traveller's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
- Trust Me Lesley Pearse
- The Lord of the Rings J R R Tolkien
- The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We launched our Poetry competition on National Poetry Day and the poems are coming in thick and fast. Our reading groups are thriving and they all enjoyed the visits by authors for the Pages Ago promotion. We are also preparing for Get into Reading training in partnership with the Primary Care Trust.
(Photo: Mrs. Jean Ormandy, winner of the Goody Box of Books for our Top Ten Books promotion, with Poet/Performer Craig Bradley and Cllr Eddie Connor. They were joined at the celebration by children who had completed the Summer Reading Challenge. The event was held in the Gallery in Kirkby Library, with a fabulous array of local artists work on display.)
For more information on Knowsley libraries visit
knowsley.gov.uk/residents/libraries.aspx or contact:
Joyce Crossman
Senior Librarian
Stock and Reader Development Librarian
Tel: 0151 443 3728
email: joyce.crossman@knowsley.gov.uk
Librarians in the North West have pioneered partnership working to encourage new readers into libraries. Time To Read is a partnership of librarians engaged in reader development activity in public library authorities in the North West Region. All 23 public library authorities in the region currently support Time To Read.