Children's library

• Children Lead Move to Rescue Library

CHILDREN as young as five have launched a campaign to save their local library. Pupils at Lingfield Primary School in Middlesbrough are writing to the town's elected mayor, Ray Mallon, and have circulated a petition to try to stop the proposed closure of nearby Marton library.

• The Northern Echo
• November 16, 2011

• 'Cameron and Clegg Have Probably Never Been Inside a Public Library' ; Children's Author Philip Pullman, an Advocate of Tomorrow's World Book Night, Tells Alison Roberts Why He Is Such a Vehement Opponent of Library Cuts

PHILIP Pullman arrives at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford wearing a jaunty beret and donnish cord trousers. At 64, he looks a little like fellow-author William Boyd, or a neat, unstained version of John Bayley. We are here to discuss World Book Night, which takes place tomorrow -- the first event of its kind and the brainchild of Canongate publisher Jamie Byng -- when one million books will be given away by and to members of the public in a great and almostspontaneous celebration of the written word. Twenty-five titles will flood the streets, including Pullman's Northern Lights, the first in his multi-million-selling His Dark Materials trilogy. He is, of course, delighted by the scheme. Pullman is courteous and obliging, mildseeming; essentially a reluctant sort of soapbox activist -- ye...

• Evening Standard - London
• March 04, 2011

• Will Children Read in a World Beyond Harry Potter? Library

The recession may be threatening the future of our libraries, perhaps more profoundly than any other public services. Recently we have reported on how budget cuts could potentially endanger the mobile library service, and how the council hopes to find Pounds 200,000 in savings by cutting librarians' hours and installing automated supermarket-style check-outs to cover for them.

• Western Daily Press
• September 26, 2011

• Illustrations Adorn Children's Library Shelves Nationwide

AS A child, Kate Leake had a chip. It was a good chip. And she saved it right til the end to savour it all the more. Sadly, this is one story without a happy ending. She dropped the chip on the floor. "I think," she says, "it's scarred me ever since!" But the offending spud did eventually bring Kate, pictured, good fortune.

• Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK)
• August 13, 2011

• New Children's Library a Novel Idea for Town

A new children's library in Scunthorpe opened its doors for the first time in mid-January 1972. Soon after the formal opening, many young readers were browsing through the wide selection on the shelves. The facility adjoining the Central Library was opened by Councillor Ralph Ross, chairman of Scunthorpe Borough Council's libraries, museum and art committee. He and Mrs Ross were welcomed to the library by borough librarian Glyn Roberts.

• Grimsby Telegraph
• November 01, 2012

• A New Chapter ; Children Check Out Library's Pounds 2.5m Refurbishment

THE rhyme famously states there's no such thing as a Gruffalo, but these Gateshead schoolkids will surely disagree. Pupils from St Joseph's Primary were joined by the book's famous beast, as well as the Mayor of Gateshead, Coun Michael Wood, to help launch the newly redeveloped Gateshead Library. The pounds 2.5m refurbishment, which officially opens to the public tomorrow, contains a brand new children's library. It is one of the largest in the country, and pupils from nearby St Joseph's were guests at the launch as they were instrumental in the new library's design.

• Evening Chronicle
• January 28, 2011

• Library Fun for Children

A LIBRARY in Swansea is holding a host of summer events to keep children entertained over August and September. Swansea Council is offering a selection of fun and engaging activities at Brynhyfryd Library, ranging from friendship bracelet making to Baby Rhyme Time. Children over seven can also take part in Circus Workshops to brush up on their juggling skills.

• South Wales Evening Post
• August 12, 2011

• War Horse Author Blasts Library Cuts As an Assault On Children's Education

AWARD-WINNING children's author Michael Morpurgo yesterday used an inaugural lecture at the Hay Festival to condemn funding cuts to libraries as an assault on children's rights to education. The War Horse author and former Children's Laureate told an audience at the festival's first ever Library Lecture that closing libraries would hit children's literacy.

• Western Mail
• June 02, 2012

• Children's Laureate at Library

PUPILS from two Merseyside schools will be part of a specially invited audience when current Children's Laureate and Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson visits Central Library in St Helens. Central Library will be one of just 24 libraries on the English and Welsh leg of the Children's Laureate Libraries Tour this autumn.

• Liverpool Echo
• August 29, 2012

• Vandals Trash Children's Library After Breaking In

E101187_2 VANDALS have trashed the children's library in Cheltenham. They broke into the Chester Walk building, overturned shelves, spread books over the floor, ripped out all the computers and sprayed them with fire extinguishers. The counter top was also pulled off and the till was thrown across the room but nothing was stolen.

• Gloucestershire Echo, The
• April 17, 2010