Category Archives: Libraries

Events celebrate Libraries Week 2022

cartoon image of two peopleA SERIES of events will be running in libraries across the county over the coming weeks to celebrate Libraries Week.

Libraries Week, which runs from October 3 to 9, is an annual celebration of the best that libraries have to offer, and this year aims to showcase how libraries are inspiring learning for all and helping individuals to unlock and fulfil their potential at every stage of life.

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Children vote for their favourite new book

Book Award logoA HISTORICAL fantasy set in a magical mash-up of Georgian and Elizabethan Britain has been announced as the winner of this year’s East Sussex Children’s Book Award.

The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant claimed top prize at a celebration event attended by nearly 200 school children.

Local children’s author Ed Boxall hosted the event which was held at The Royal Hippodrome Theatre in Eastbourne last month.

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Children invited to join the Gadgeteers’ Summer Reading Challenge

Gadgeteers text with cartoon children belowYOUNG readers in East Sussex are being encouraged to discover the science and innovation in the world around them as they take on the Summer Reading Challenge.

East Sussex libraries are calling on children aged four to 12 to read six books over the summer months as part of The Reading Agency’s Gadgeteers Summer Reading Challenge 2022.

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