{"id":1533,"date":"2010-06-24T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:01:50","slug":"kids-take-one-giant-leap-into-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2010\/06\/kids-take-one-giant-leap-into-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids take one giant leap into libraries!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Libraries Minister, Nelson McCausland, launched this year\u2019s Summer Reading Challenge, on behalf of Libraries NI, at Finaghy Library on Wednesday 23rd<\/sup> June, with a little help from the pupils of Finaghy Primary School.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Summer Reading Challenge takes place from Saturday 26th<\/sup> June \u2013 Saturday 4th<\/sup> September, and aims to keep children reading throughout the school summer holidays. This year\u2019s theme is \u2018Space Hop\u2019 which is designed to create a \u2018buzz\u2019 around reading and all Northern Ireland libraries are preparing to launch children\u2019s imaginations into orbit through this intergalactic book adventure. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Challenge is simple – Children are encouraged to read six or more books of their choice during the holidays with collectable incentives and rewards, plus a certificate or medal for every child who completes the Challenge.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch, Minister McCausland said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Summer Reading Challenge continues to go from strength to strength every year. This exciting initiative not only encourages our children to read and enjoy books but also promotes quality time and interaction between parents, carers and children. Libraries play a vital role in the development of our children and I would encourage all parents and carers to bring their children along to their local library to take up this challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Summer Reading Challenge is an immensely popular and successful reading initiative. Now in its twelfth year, it is created by The Reading Agency, which is an independent charity working to inspire more people to read more.<\/p>\n

Libraries NI Chief Executive, Irene Knox explains:<\/p>\n

\u201cResearch shows that children really enjoy taking part in the Summer Reading Challenge, which is a great way to keep children entertained over the holidays. More importantly, it has been proven that children who take part in the Challenge read more books and read more widely than those who don\u2019t, with potentially life-changing results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland Libraries are inviting children age 4 \u2013 11, parents and carers to participate in this year\u2019s Challenge from Saturday 26th<\/sup> June \u2013 Saturday 4th<\/sup> September.<\/p>\n

An interactive Space Hop (www.spacehop.org.uk<\/a>) website has just been launched, linking children with top authors and illustrators, and giving them space to talk about their favourite books and to share reading ideas.<\/p>\n

To find our more about events planned around the Summer Reading Challenge, contact any Northern Ireland library or go to the Libraries NI events website at www.librariesni.org.uk\/events<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Libraries Minister, Nelson McCausland, launched this year\u2019s Summer Reading Challenge, on behalf of Libraries NI, at Finaghy Library on Wednesday 23rd June, with a little help from the pupils of Finaghy Primary School. The Summer Reading Challenge takes place from Saturday 26th June \u2013 Saturday 4th September, and aims to keep children reading throughout the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[533,532,530,531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}