Meet Curtis Jobling at Warrington Central Library

Author and illustrator, Curtis Jobling will be at Warrington Library on Saturday 21st June between 11.00 am and 1.00pm.

Primary Schools Competition Time

Win a visit to your school by author, Curtis Jobling and a set of his signed books. Pupils need to design another pet for Frankenstein and send their entries to the Warrington Guardian at The Academy, 138 Bridge Street, WA1 2RU by Thursday 19th June.

Top New Reads for June recommended by Padgate Library

Teenage Fiction
Broken Soup  Jenny Valentine
Gene Machine  Paul Blum
Day of Judgement  Paul Blum
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Break  Gennifer Choldenko
Dirty Work  Julia Bell
Being  Kevin Brooks
Great Summer Reads:
Girls: Why not escape with Karen McCombie’s:
Marshmallow Magic and the Wild Rose Rouge
Happiness and All that Stuff
Deep Joy or Something Like It
Boys: Escape with:
Mick Sahow’s tales from ‘The Midnight [...]

Top New Reads for June recommended by Padgate Library

Children’s Fiction
Trouble in Paradise: The Hardy Boys  Franklin Dixon
Thomas Trew and the Island of Ghosts  Sophie Masson
Dilly the Lost Duxkling  Tina Nolan
The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog  Jeremy Strong
City of Time  Eoin McNamee
The Water Horse  Dick King Smith
Join in more adventures with R L Stine’s ‘Rotten School’ and meet some new ghoulish friends in ‘Too [...]

LoveReading 4 kids

LoveReading 4 kids – Register FREE on the site and download opening extracts from every featured book on the site, including picture books. Try before you buy!

The 10 Doctors

Excellent Doctor Who web comic – The 10 Doctors

Warrington NYR Screensaver

Download the Warrington Year of Reading Screensaver for your pcs, laptops or plasma screens. This fun screensaver features familiar scenes around the town.

More ‘Infinite Canvas’ comics from Scott McCloud

Porphyria’s Lover
I Can’t Stop Thinking!
Hearts and Minds
Carl
I love this one. It starts with the beginning, middle and end and you build up the story in between!
My Obsession with Chess
Not forgetting, of course, George Beedham’s fantastic ‘Remnants’ comic.

Sherry Ashworth Resources

Warrington Grid for Learning has some new resources related to the Sherry Ashworth workshop including some advice on how to write a good story and the answers to questions posed to Sherry during the workshop.