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Mal Peet

Find out more about Mal Peet’s visit to Warrington and his Question and Answer session with pupils.

Author Mal Peet visits Warrington

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Mal Peet Visit

Warrington Libraries have arranged for Mal Peet to come to Culcheth Public Library on Friday 7th November between 1.15pm and 2.45pm to talk to Year 8 pupils. (4 places per school) Please contact Jean Hudson (jhudson@warrignton.gov.uk) for more information.
It would be lovely if pupils could enter their comments about the visit here on the [...]

AUTUMN CHALLENGE – National Year of Reading

Win £2000 worth of Oxford University Press books in this competition run by the National Year of Reading and supported by the National Literary Trust.
What’s involved? Plan an activity to promote and develop reading for pleasure in your school and then write it up on the NYR’s Wikireadia . You will be automatically entered in [...]

WARRINGTON WINNER OF WINNERS BOOK AWARDS 2008

The aim of the book award is to promote the use of local libraries and reading for enjoyment in Warrington in this National Year of Reading.  Everyone is invited to vote for his/her favourite book in school, the library or at leisure centres. The winning book will be announced in December 2008

VOTE HERE!

Warrington Council Members’ Favourite Reads

Cllr Sheila Woodyatt MBE
Lead Member Children’s Services
For light hearted reading I am addicted to Tom Sharpe’s Wilt books. They are very funny, irreverent, poke fun at political correctness and trendy ideas, are often very rude but always make me laugh. My favourite real read is Almond and Raisins by Maisie Mosco. It is the first [...]

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 [...]