Inanimate Alice

What a wonderful resource!
‘Inanimate Alice’ tells the story of Alice, a young girl growing up in the first half of the 21st century, and her imaginary digital friend, Brad.Over ten episodes, each a self contained story, we see Alice grow from an eight year old living with her parents in a remote region of Northern [...]

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 [...]

The 10 Doctors

Excellent Doctor Who web comic – The 10 Doctors

Photographs from Sherry Ashworth workshop

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We Tell Stories

Check out this fascinating experiment in digital fiction launched by Penguin. Six digital stories in six weeks written by well-known authors and inspired by classics. Charles Cumming tells his story ‘The 21 Steps’ (Yes, you guessed it, John Buchan’s 39 Steps) through Google Maps! ‘Fairy Tales’ (Hans Christian Anderson) involves the reader in choosing who/what [...]

Sherry Ashworth Workshop April 10th 2008

We want to know what you think……………
about Sherry Ashworth’s book Paralysed
about the workshop
about what you REALLY like reading – not connected to school
about your favourite reads
In fact about absolutely anything to do with reading for others to share. Please post a comment below.

No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

I loved reading the series of 9 books by Alexander McCall Smith and was thrilled to bits to watch the dramatisation of the first book, ‘The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’, on BBC1 recently . The characters were just as I had imagined them and the Botswana setting was stunning. Highly recommend you read them [...]