We’ve recovered from our packed Book Week Scotland and made it through all the photos and social media posts! Turns out we welcomed over 1200 people to an incredible week of library events! Book Week Scotland ran November 18-23. Here’s a wee taste of what happened.
Monday
Marlene’s manic Monday saw her head to Bo’ness Primary for stories and rhymes with P1, P2 and P3 pupils, while Zetland Nursery popped into Grangemouth Library to choose some books.
Debbie at Bonnybridge Library had the lovely job of gifting Bookbug Primary 1 Bags to St. Joseph’s Primary P1s. She really enjoyed reading Sophie Johnson: Unicorn Expert!
Evelyn and the Falkirk Library team had visits from Comely Park Primary on Monday, Tuesday AND Thursday! Phew!
We celebrated our wonderful Writing Rammy winners on Monday evening. Helen MacKinven did a top-notch job playing host. She created a lovely atmosphere for everyone to get up and read their incredible stories. At the end we headed into the cold night feeling warm and fuzzy!
Tuesday
Slamannan Primary were the lucky recipients of a visit from amazing Emily Dodd and her Crime Squirrel Investigators! After the event Debbie and John from Slamannan Library gifted the pupils with Bookbug Primary 1 bags.
Wednesday
Emily’s next stop was Grangemouth Primary on Wednesday morning to meet two P2 classes from Beancross Primary. What a cracking morning!
The Bonnybridge team welcomed two classes of pupils from Antonine Primary for stories and rewarded them with Read Write Count bags.
Thursday
We LOVE Kate Leiper’s beautiful illustrations, so we were thrilled when she agreed to come along and tell us, and an S3 art class from Braes High, about her process.
The afternoon saw the return of Aunty Emily. We had an afternoon full of stories, science and giggles with the P1s from Kinnaird Primary. More photos from all of Emily’s visits this week are on Facebook.
Debbie at Bonnybridge Library welcomed the Bonnybridge Cub Scouts as they found out more about St. Andrew’s Day. Marlene popped back to see more pals at St. Mary’s Primary in Bo’ness. She enjoyed storytelling sessions with P4, P6 and P7 pupils.
Our big event for adults made for a thrilling Thursday evening. Helen Fitzgerald and Doug Johnstone provided an hour of intelligent, insightful and very funny chat. We heard all about their upcoming work – they’ve got a jam-packed 2020 ahead! Check out their new books Worst Case Scenario (Helen) and Breakers (Doug).
Friday
Lynne and Laura took Larbert Library to Ladeside Primary and told stories all morning. The pupils added their favourite books, authors and reading subjects to a HUGE Reading Banner.
Poet, author and Scots Language champion, Matthew Fitt, headed West to Bonnybridge and Denny Libraries, catching pupils from Antonine Primary, Bonnybridge Primary and Denny Primary! Denny also welcomed the Denny Primary nursery class for stories in the morning. There’s more Matthew photos on Facebook.
And, like every week, we had a grand blether at our adult craft and book groups and enjoyed stories, rhymes and giggles at our weekly Bookbug and Storytime sessions. What a week! Time to put our feet up!
Thanks
Before we go, we’d like to thank the Scottish Book Trust for their Book Week Scotland support and the Live Literature sessions that enable us to host such great events. Funding from the Scottish Library and Information Council has also been invaluable.
Big thanks also go to the fine practitioners who delivered such engaging sessions: Emily Dodd, Matthew Fitt , Helen Fitzgerald , Doug Johstone, Kate Leiper and Helen MacKinven.
We also say “Hooray for library staff!”, as none of this would happen without them!
Thanks to everyone who joined us last week – come back soon!
