Celebrating stories

Jersey Library will launch this year’s Summer Reading Challenge on Saturday 28 June with a range of multilingual stories and activities for children in the Town Library.

Between 10am and 12pm, community partners will read stories in their home language, including Portuguese, Polish, Romanian and Jèrriais.

The Summer Reading Challenge has been made available this year to all pre-school and primary school children in Jersey, challenging them to read (or share with a parent/carer) six books over the summer.

This year’s theme is the ‘Story Garden’ and children can borrow books from the Town Library, Mobile library, or Communicare, listen to audiobooks, download eBooks, read graphic novels, read books in different languages, or read books from home, friends, and school. Children will receive a certificate and medal for completing the challenge. A free swim pass is also available to all children who complete three books in the challenge.

All children who attend the event on Saturday will receive an additional swim pass. All swim passes are valid for one swim at Aqua Splash.