Next Saturday, 9th February, is National Libraries
Day. The Friends of Preston Library will be celebrating with a special children's event in the former Preston Library
building on Carlton Avenue East. The building is now housing extra
classrooms for Preston Park Primary School and the Friends are very grateful to the
headteacher, Mr John Redpath, for allowing them to use the building in this
way.
The event will run from 12pm - 4pm and will include
story-telling with a local author, an art corner, the pop-up library - and they are especially pleased to be able to welcome well-known children's writer, Saman
Shamsie, who will be reading from her own stories and from the new Puffin Book
of Magic Stories.
Do bring your children along to the library building
on Saturday and help to celebrate the importance of libraries and reading in
our community.
