Summer Reading Challenge

The Summer Reading Challenge is underway at Thetford Library. Just read 6 books over the Summer to complete your sticker collection and get a certificate and a medal! If that’s not enough fun we’ve got loads of fab (and FREE) events to keep your little ones entertained. Some events will require booking – visit the website for more info: www.library.norfolk.gov.uk/whats-on

Go Cart Making – 5th August, 3pm - 4pm

Ready, set, go! Build your own mini go-cart and compete to see whose is the fastest.

Slime Making Workshop – 10th August, 11am - 12 noon. The blob is back! Enjoy messy, gloopy fun in the library and learn about the weird and wonderful nature of slime.

Teddybear Zipline and Picnic – 15th August, 12 - 1pm. Ready Steady Teddy! Have fun learning about friction and send your teddy down the zipline. Grimms’ Fairytales – 12th August, 10.30am - 11.30am. Join library staff with storytelling inspired by Grimms’ Fairytales and create your own fairytale creature! Drop-in session, no need to book. BAWBG_16650 - I C Travel_NEW.pdf 1 01/07/2019 10:01:58

Reading Sparks: Animals – 19th August, 2.30pm - 4pm. Reading Sparks is a new project to engage children and families with science through reading from The Reading Agency. We’ve got 3 different experiments to try – how many will you complete? Coding Taster Session – 23rd August, 3pm - 4pm Learn how to code games, animation and more using Scratch. Sessions are perfect for 7 - 11 year olds with little or no coding experience. Epic Engineering – 26th August, 3pm - 4pm Your mission: Join us and build the tallest tower you can out of spaghetti and marshmallows (the best building materials libraries can buy)! Reading Sparks: The moon – 30th August, 11am - 12noon and Reading Sparks: Simple Machines – 2nd September 2pm - 3pm. Medal Ceremony – Saturday 3rd September, 11am. Congratulations on completing the Summer Reading Challenge! Come along and collect your medal and certificate.

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August, it’s August and our thoughts turn to taking time out from our everyday lives for rest and relaxation. We love the start of Hollie McNish’s poem, When We Got to the Beach: I screamed sprinted to the sea flung off shoes and socks ran towards imagined heaving waves and jumped each tiny trickle that I found there with just the same excitement Whether you’re on the beach or staying closer to home, a book is the perfect companion for a bit of rest and relaxation. The Indie Books of the Month for both Fiction and Children’s also offer an element of escapism. The Mermaid’s Tale by Lee Wei-Jing is a beautiful solo dance of a novel. It brings to mind the exploration of the female body in The Vegetarian and the madness of the dance world of Black Swan, but is told in a lighter voice at once dreamy, whimsical, and scintillating. Written in the author’s darkest days, it is nevertheless a book about life and freedom.

Joseph Coelho has just been named the Children’s Laureate for 2022-2024 and his beautiful new picture book, Our Tower has been chosen as the August Book of the Month. It’s a fantastical adventure about three children living in a tower block who travel to a strange, magical world inside a tree and meeting an old man with supernatural powers, only to realise that the magic they’d been looking for had been in their tower all along. Beautiful illustrations by Richard Johnson complement the poetic narrative, creating an enchanting story which children and adults alike will fall in love with. This powerful story is about how society separates urban spaces from the countryside, but the reality is that nature is everywhere, and everyone should have access to it.

If you’re looking for some real adventures closer to home, Not Just Books are delighted to be taking part in Thetford’s first Creative Carnival. We’ve got children’s workshops on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th August. We’re also hosting a talk by Dr. Susan Dean who completed her PhD with a study of Mary E. Mann, a female Norfolk author who D J Taylor described as ‘brutal as Hardy, as sharply satirical as Thackeray’. Mann lived and wrote just down the road in Shipdham which she immortalised as “Dulditch” in her short stories. Please pop into the shop, visit Facebook or our website to book your place at these events. We’re also delighted to be teaming up with the wonderful team at The Mulberry to bring you Dinner With An Author. Join Kate Sawyer on Sunday August 14th for Dinner at The Mulberry, hors d’oeuvres followed by a two-course dinner and conversation from 6pm. £30.00 per person, advanced booking only. Kate is the author of The Stranding which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Fiction Prize at the East Anglian

Book Awards 2021. Please book this directly with The Mulberry on 01842 824122.

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