Medway Libraries Update

 

New title and date added: Online Book Clubs

 

Medway Libraries run secure online book clubs for the ages below, on Microsoft Teams. All the books are available for free, along with thousands of others, through our eLibrary. To sign up for a free library card, please click here.

 

8-12 Year Olds: Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori

 

Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori is a gloriously imaginative, hilarious novel, about the Strega-Borgia clan (and their mythical beasts), who hire a nanny to help restore calm at their Scottish castle. It’s Nanny McPhee meets The Addams Family, with added dragons and belly-laughs.

 

• Monday 3^rd August, 12-1pm

• Please email emily.maycock@medway.gov.uk to book.
• You can read the book for free here.

 

13-16 Year Olds: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

 

• Wednesday 15^th July, 12-1pm.
• Please email kate.clifford@medway.gov.uk to book.
• You can read or listen to the book for free here.

 

17-19 Year Olds: Divergent by Veronica Roth

 

• Friday 17^th July, 12-1pm.
• Please email kate.clifford@medway.gov.uk to book.
• You can read the book for free here.

 

 

Summer Reading Challenge

 

It’s not too late to sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge, as children can set their own targets this year. The Challenge is online-only for 2020. Join in here.

 

Medway Libraries has organised a summer series of short videos by children’s authors to celebrate the Summer Reading Challenge. So far we have posted clips by Ellie Irving, Chitra Soundar and Andy Stanton.

 

 

Libraries Reopening

 

From Monday 6^th July, you can return your books to our six Community Hub libraries. From Monday 13^th July, we'll be launching a new click and collect service. This means you'll be able to reserve books online for collection at the Community Hubs.

 

Other hub and library services will gradually re-open when it is safe to do so.

 

All updates are available on our website.

 

 

Cressida Cowell’s Creativity Summer Camp

 

Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, best-selling author-illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon and Wizards of Once series, is hosting a Summer Camp which celebrates children’s innate creativity and showcases the enormous wealth of talent across the UK.

 

Cressida will be joined by an all-star line-up of leading authors and illustrators – including Liz Pichon, David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Theresa Lola, Chris Riddell and Rob Biddulph – to encourage young creatives with writing workshops, drawing masterclasses and much more.

 

To catch up and join in, click here.