Dive Into A Deep Sea Adventure At Torfaen Libraries
Torfaen’s libraries are joining in with National Bookstart Week this week, with story sessions, rhyme times and messy crafts for children.
National Bookstart Week celebrates the benefits of reading every day and sharing stories, books and rhymes with young children.
This year’s theme is Under the Sea and children will be given a free book, book A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea by Jessica Law and illustrated by Jill McDonald, and a rhyme sheet to take home with them.
Activities are taking place in all three of Torfaen’s libraries:
Cwmbran Library (contact 01633 647676)
Tuesday 7 June. Fun session with stories, rhymes, and messy crafts from 1.30pm – 2.15pm
Friday 10 June Rhyme time from 10am – 10.30am
Pontypool Library (contact 01495 766160)
Wednesday 8 June. Rhyme time from 2.15 – 2.45pm
Blaenavon World Heritage Centre and Library (contact 01495 742333)
Thursday 9 June. Stories and rhyme time from 2.15pm – 2.45pm
National Bookstart Week is an annual celebration of BookTrust’s flagship reading programme, Bookstart, which gives every child in England and Wales a free reading pack in the first year of their life, and again when they are two years old.
In Wales, Bookstart is delivered in close partnership with libraries and health visitors, encouraging families to join their local library and to try to read every day.
Diana Gerald, Chief Executive of BookTrust said: “Making time to read with your children is so important because shared reading leads to a love of reading. And we know that reading for pleasure has a dramatic impact on life outcomes – and this is as much about confidence and well-being as it is about educational achievements.
“Children who are read to every night start school a year ahead of those who are not and the gap only widens as they get older. Quite simply, children who read for pleasure are happier, healthier and do better in life than those who don’t.”
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