feature: Get reading for National Year of Reading
27 June 2008
Top local authors are lining up for National Year of Reading events across the borough.
The year aims to encourage reading for people of all ages and backgrounds, providing new opportunities to read and helping people get help and support with reading through schools and libraries.
“We are encouraging everyone to visit the library, share their experiences and celebrate their reading together,”
says Cllr Dhiren Basu, cabinet member for leisure, culture and lifelong learning.
There’s a theme for each month, with children’s sessions, author talks and book promotions:
- July – Rhythm and rhyme
- August – Read the game (writing about sport)
- September – You are what you read
- October – Word of mouth
- November – Screen reads
- December – Write the future.
Award-winners in action:
Orange Prize-winner and Crouch End resident Linda Grant talks about her new novel “The clothes on their backs” (Virago) on Wednesday 9 July, 7.15pm at Hornsey Library.
“I would support anything like this which encourages people to read,” she said. “As a child I was so incredibly proud of my multiple library tickets and the enormous number of books I managed to swallow up.”
Poetry London winner Kathryn Simmonds, also from Crouch End, reads from her debut collection “Sunday at the Skin Launderette” (Seren) at a poetry in the courtyard’ session at Hornsey Library, 11.30am on 26 July.
|back to topCompetition winners
Congratulations to M. McNicholas of South Tottenham, C. Sadler of Crouch End and A. Wright of Muswell Hill, winners of the National Year of Reading competition in the May issue of Haringey People.
The correct answers were:
1. Romesh Gunesekera;
2. John Betjeman;
3. Freya North.
Thanks to everyone who entered.
Check your local library for details of activities through the year, or visit the What's On in Libraries page.
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