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Welcome to the latest edition of your library
newsletter.
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We’ve made it easier to find books on our catalogue for
children and young people who have dyslexia.
Visit our library
catalogue, go to advanced search, scroll down to select
Dyslexia Friendly Books Junior (suitable for 8 – 12 year olds) and / or
Dyslexia Friendly Books Teens (suitable for 12+) in Collection.
Click ‘OK’ and all items in the collections you have selected will appear.
Most of the books in our
Dyslexia Friendly collections are published by Barrington Stoke, a specialist
publisher of high interest low reading ability books. They have useful advice about how to select
books on the Where
do I start? web page.
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The Big Friendly Read Summer Reading Challenge 2016 has now
finished. We are delighted that over 8,500 children took part this year and
nearly 6,000 of those managed to complete the Challenge.
Many of the children who finished the Challenge asked to
have their certificates presented in school. With one parent commenting "Absolutely
brilliant. My daughter couldn’t stop reading, it was such an incentive
and challenge." We will be sending the
certificates to schools during October.
We would like to say a huge thank you to all of the
dedicated volunteers who helped us to deliver The Big Friendly Read in
libraries this year.
Visit the Summer
Reading Challenge website at any time of year for recommended books,
competitions, games, author interviews, and news. You can even add your own
book reviews!
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Help to find the nation's
favourite book with the #LovetoRead campaign. Library users across the
country are being asked to vote
for their favourite book, and tell us in just a few words why it's
their favourite book.
Why not share your favourite reads and recommend books to others on social media using #LovetoRead #Libraries. You can also share it with us over on our facebook page.
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One of
our librarians, Henry, tells us about How
to be both by Ali Smith:
"I only picked this
up because I thought the cover looked 60's and cool! How to be both by Ali Smith is two interconnected novellas; CAMERA
is the story of George, a young adult grieving for her mother; EYES is the
(partly true) story of Francesco, a Renaissance artist of the 1460s.
In half of all printed
editions of the novel the narrative EYES comes before CAMERA. In the
other half of printed editions the narrative CAMERA precedes EYES. Called
by some an adult Choose Your Own Adventure, How
to be both is best appreciated not as two stories but – as described by
George’s mum - "like reading a book in which all the lines of
the text have been overprinted, like each page is actually two pages but with
one superimposed on the other".
I thought How to be both would be
tricksy and “modern” and annoying, especially as CAMERA ends (abruptly) and
EYES begins all
Stream of
Consciousness and
Written in shapes
On the page like
It’s a poem
Or
Something
But, it’s so very brilliant that I want to tell the whole world. And it really
is both; both: annoying and brilliant, tricksy and traditional, straight and
LGBT, male and female, death and life, romantic and cynical, elderly and
teenage…"
Why
not borrow this book from your local East Sussex library? You can reserve a copy online.
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Did you know you can rent
DVDs from your local library?
With latest releases
priced from £3.50 for a week's loan, you can find these popular titles in your local
library.
In October our new
releases include:
- Bad Neighbours 2
- Eye in the Sky
- I Saw the Light
- Robinson Crusoe
- Hologram for the King
See the full selection of our new releases here.
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