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This is just like last year (and the year
before that, and the year before that and
probably next year too!). BUT this year
is new because Wincanton Library (like
many others) is still closed because of
the Covid-19 Virus. This year’s game is
different because:
It’s even sillier than usual. ☺ It’s led by
the Silly Squad who get up to a lot
of very silly things.
Some of them are
here:
You can’t go into
the library to take
part because it’s
closed. :( And
even when it
opens it won’t
be the quite
the same for
a while.
BUT
You can
go online
to https://
summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/join-in
and you can register with your
name and a special password (grownups
might offer some useful help here)
and then tick off as you read lots of books
– at least 6 – and earn a badge online for
each book you read. When the library is
open again there will be small prizes so
please keep a record of everything you
read and come and show it to us.
ALL the different kinds of books you read
count, so you can read ebooks, listen to
audio books, someone can read a book
to you or you can just read as usual -
stories or picture books or information
books. It’s all fine! You can find lots of
ideas on the Summer Reading Challenge
website or you can go onto Somerset
Libraries Facebook pages and find people
reading stories and people showing
you how to make things out of toilet rolls,
draw pictures and all sorts of things like
that). GO FOR IT!
There are things on the Somerset Libraries
pages for adults too of course - www.
facebook.com/SomersetLibraries/ .
There’s an online book club as well as
suggestions for thought provoking reads.
In addition there are over 50 magazines
to choose from – all free with your
library card. (You can join
online and get a virtual card
at www.librarieswest.org.uk
– scroll down and click on the
picture of the library cards).
In Wincanton, the poetry group
is exchanging poems on email
and if you haven’t got email we
can deliver them! Just send an
email (or get a friend to send one)
to poetrygroup20@gmail.com
giving your email or postal address
and we will send or bring you
poems. There is a different theme
each month and the theme for July is
‘Liberation’ (or ‘Escape’). If you want
to find a poem and send it in (using the
same poetry group email address) it will
be circulated around the group. Half
the fun is searching through your poetry
books or through the poetry pages on
the web looking for suitable poems. You
find all sorts of things you’ve forgotten or
never come across before.
So if you’re bored with lockdown, if you
getting fed up with the news and not being
able to get you hair cut or go to the
cinema or have no idea what to do next
then:
VISIT THE LIBRARY VIRTUALLY NOW!
And it won’t be long before you can do it
for real: