Young bookworms complete 'Mischief Makers' challenge

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Alderley Edge Library hosted an awards ceremony on Saturday, 15th September for the youngsters who completed this year's Summer Reading Challenge.

Organised by the Reading Agency, The Summer Reading Challenge runs every year during the summer holidays encouraging children to read any six library books of their choice and collect stickers and incentives along the way to encourage them to keep going.

This year's theme was 'Mischief Makers', celebrating the 80th anniversary of the much-loved comic Beano which proved a very popular theme with 103 children starting the challenge and 55 managing to read all six books.

One parent said "My girls, aged 5 and 7, loved the Summer Reading Challenge and were very motivated to finish their 6 books. They loved the map and stickers."

Another parent commented "It is always good to read with my daughter. The challenge kept us focused to remember to take that nice time together, building good habits for the future."

Councillor Craig Browne attended along with two of the library's young borrowers, Iris and Alice, to present medals and certificates to the 4 to 11 year olds who completed the challenge.

Councillor Craig Browne said "It was a pleasure to present the Summer Reading Challenge Awards once again this year and I would like to congratulate everyone involved.

"This year I felt it was appropriate to invite Alice and Iris, who collected the petition to save the library, to present the medals and certificates with me and I would like to thank them both for coming along to help."

He added "The staff have planned many special activities throughout the year to encourage people to use the library and it is important that we support them wherever we can."

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Harry Martin
Tuesday 18th September 2018 at 2:40 pm
What a great story . It won't be the fault of dedicated staff if libraries close .