Young readers are making a splash during National Bookstart Week, which gets underway today (Monday 6 June, 2016).<\/p>\n
Wolverhampton’s libraries are supporting the annual event aimed at pre-school children and their families, with a host of free events taking place around the city based on the theme, “Under The Sea”.<\/p>\n
The programme begins with a Baby Book Time and craft session with Bookstart Bear at East Park Library today (Monday) from 10am-11am.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, there’s a Baby Book Time at Central Library from 10.15am-11.15am and Story Time at Warstones Library from 2.30pm-3pm.<\/p>\n
Bilston Library hosts a Story Time on Wednesday from 11am-11.30am, before local pupils enjoy a visit to Whitmore Reans Library on Wednesday afternoon for some “Pirate Mania”.<\/p>\n
Tettenhall Library has a Story Time on Thursday from 11am-11.45am while there’s another Baby Book Time at Springvale Library on Friday from 10.15-11am.<\/p>\n
There are special Bookstart promotions at the Civic Centre today from 2pm-5pm and Friday from 2pm-3pm and at New Cross Hospital on Thursday from 2pm-5pm with freebies up for grabs. A National Bookstart display can also be seen at the Civic Centre throughout the week.<\/p>\n
For more details about joining Wolverhampton’s libraries, please visit www.wolverhampton.gov.uk\/libraries<\/u><\/a>. For details of National Bookstart Week, please visit www.bookstart.org.uk<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Young readers are making a splash during National Bookstart Week, which gets underway today (Monday 6 June, 2016). Wolverhampton’s libraries are supporting the annual event aimed at pre-school children and their families, with a host of free events taking place around the city based on the theme, “Under The Sea”. The programme begins with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}