Class Visit

A class from St.John's RCP visited The Wheatsheaf Library on Monday. I shared some stories with them, Nick Sharratt's Once Upon a Time, where you make up the story each time so every telling is different, one of my favourites. That was followed by Sam Lloyd's You're not so scary, Sid, another brilliant story which has a hand puppet monster in the book. Then followed the usual organised chaos as all thirty children looked for books and all wanted to ask me questions at the same time. As usual, the library was buzzing. Nothing unusual in that, I've been doing it in Rochdale alone for the last twenty two years. What made a difference was staff and public commenting on how vibrant the library was with the children so enthusiastically lively in it.
And we had about a dozen new members for the library and the Young Surfer's Club, our way of ensuring they can use the People's Network with parent's consent.