Within the first month of opening, over 1,150 young readers have signed up for this year’s free Summer Reading Challenge at Denbighshire’s Libraries.
This year’s challenge opened in early July and is themed around art and creativity.
Marvellous Makers, which is the title of this year’s challenge, has seen 1,153
Denbighshire’s young readers sign up so far.
The
challenge this year is designed to celebrate creativity. This can range from
dancing to drawing and junk modelling to music, celebrating the endless ways
that children are creative.
The
Summer Reading Challenge aims to keep children reading over the summer holidays
with events, activities and brilliant books – available to access for free from
all of Denbighshire’s eight libraries – and provides a free, fun way to keep
young minds active.
The
annual Summer Reading Challenge is delivered by The Reading Agency and is
supported in Wales by the Books Council of Wales, thanks to funding from Welsh
Government.
Deborah Owen, Principal Librarian at Denbighshire County Council said: “Reading is such an important life skill, and we would love to see as many children as possible sign up this year.
"Don’t
worry if you haven’t started yet, there’s still plenty of time to get reading
in this year’s challenge.”
Councillor Emrys Wynne, Lead member for the Welsh Language, Culture and Heritage said: “It is brilliant to see that so many young people have signed up for this year’s challenge.
"Reading
is so important for wellbeing and learning during the summer break, helping to
keep young minds active while there is no school.”
* To
sign up for the summer reading challenge, please contact or visit Llangollen Library.
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