Reading Communities
Click here for more details of the 2008 Reading Communities.
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Brand new clubs that will offer teenage boys the opportunity to meet celebrities, win prizes and enjoy many activities!
Give a Book Week
Celebrities and members of the public throughout Wales gave each other books as gifts during this special week in July!
Book Previews
Read Dragon & Mousie and the Snow Factory by Andrew Fusek Peters (illustrated by Gini Wade)
Dragon and Mousie wake up to a white world where their forest was just last night. They build a ladder to the sky, right up to the Snow Factory, where Cloud Angel gives them a very special present.
Read Bardsey by Christine Evans a Wolf Marloh
‘It’s a fragment of land at the edge, first landfall after the Irish sea.’For Christine Evans, the lure of island life is indisputable. Since her first visit to Bardsey, over forty years ago, she has spent every summer on the island, amassing a remarkable knowledge of its history, its people, its wildlife and its weather. She knows the realities of the community life, and is ideally placed to challenge the romantic image of a remote, abandoned place which is sometimes offered by other media. Hers are real stories, which she chooses to share here in evocative prose, as well as a fine selection of island poems.
The writer’s words are complemented by the stunning photographs of Wolf Marloh. With imagination and wit, he offers a visual interpretation of the same three themes as the poet herself – at first sight; living on the island; and horizons. Together they present a magnificent celebration of Ynys Enlli, the island that is Bardsey.
Read Ar Bwys by Mererid Hopwood (illustrated by Susie Grindey)
An opportunity to enjoy the enchanting words of acclaimed poet Mererid Hopwood as she guides us through the wonderful world of children. From the youngest child and the best of friends to the literary giant T. Llew Jones, they are all discussed in this beautiful book.
What are you waiting for? Are you ready to misbehave, to venture under the bed and to listen to Mum counting up to three? Just open the cover and turn the pages…
Read Nerth Bôn Braich by
Sian Eirian Rees Davies, Rhiannon Thomas, Caron Edwards, Gwen Lasarus, Annes Glynn, Eurgain Haf, Janice Jones
It’s May Day, and the village of Portmeirion is bustling, but among the usual visitors is a group of daring women with one thing in mind – to compete for the title of Wales’s Strongest Woman.
What drives them to work so hard to be the best? Are there any scandals lurking under the surface in the world of strong women contests? Who is creating gossip, who fits in where, and will anyone fall at the first hurdle…?
All the answers can be found in this innovative novel – a collaboration by seven authors who have one aim, which is to tell a good tale
