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Recruiting for the summer holidays

During the summer Swindon libraries will be organising a reading game for children aged 3 to 16 years, writes Robert Cotterill.
Last year volunteers were recruited to listen to children talking about for the outstanding children's book and the best illustrated book of the
the books they had read and also to help with the day to day adminis- year respectively. The titles to go forward to the Library Association
tration of the game. We are on the look out again for adult volunteers, along with others from around the whole country are:
young or old, who could be available for as little as two hours a week. Carnegie: Gillian Cross Tightrope; JK Rowling Harry Potter and the
They will play a vital role in helping to provide a worthwhile reading prisoner of Azkaban
initiative for youngsters. The game will be fun and experience has Greenaway: Babette Cole Hair in funny places; Michael Rosen Rover
shown it has a beneficial effect on children's reading and conversa-
tional skills. If you would like to help, contact West Swindon library on This is the time of year when there are lots of jobs to do inside and out,
465555 for more details. whether it be gardening, DIY or decoration. Remember to check out
Last month pupils from Commonweal and Dorcan schools helped your local library for the large selection of illustrated reference books.
library staff to decide which four books should be nominated as Or if you are not feeling energetic why not curl up with a good novel or
Swindon's recommendations for the Carnegie and Greenaway medals video, listen to a CD or music cassette?
New fiction for April
Philip McCutchan Ogilvie under Nicola Thorne In Time of War In Marion Babson A Tealeaf in the Audrey Howard Rivers of the Heart
Fire It is Captain James Ogilvie's this the latest instalment of the Mouse To be part of the gang, Audrey Howard's enthralling
unenviable charge to keep an eye popular People of the Parish saga, Robin had to steal a rich lady's cat. novel is about a woman whose
on an over zealous recruit. Yet Nicola Thorne follows the lives of But he now finds himself in pos- broken heart leads to a marriage
Dewar is not the only hazard the characters in the years during and session of a cat and witness to a filled with tragedy and passion.
battalion has to face. There are the after the Second World War. murder. The latest in Marion Alexander Fullerton A Share of
problems of discipline and com- Brian Freemantle Target The US Babson's delightful cat mysteries. Honour March 1942, submarines
mand in barely endurable circum- and Soviet intelligence combine to Barbara Taylor Bradford Where based on Malta are denying sup-
stances before they finally face a eliminate a threat to Middle East you Belong A novel set in war torn plies to the Afrika Corps. Berlin
remorseless and terrible enemy. peace - an unprecedented act in Kosovo which deals with the hor- demands action; Paul Everard is
espionage history. rors and consequences of conflict. in the thick of it.

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