{"id":879,"date":"2011-03-03T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salibblog.wordpress.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2011-03-03T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:04:51","slug":"world-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/2011\/03\/03\/world-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

World<\/a> Book Day<\/a> is an annual celebration of books and reading. It is a national event with schools and libraries from across the UK running events. 2011 is the first your Stromness Academy Library has run an event as well as putting on a display. An informal book reading session was held during lunchti\"\"<\/a>me which around 15 pupils attended to listen to extracts of books being read.<\/p>\n

Mrs Sinclair kicked off the session by reading from The White Mountains<\/em> by John Chrisptopher. This is a book she first read at secondary school and it is one of the first books she remembers borrowing from the school library.<\/p>\n

Three pupils also contributed by reading short extracts from books that they particularly enjoyed. They each gave a short overview of what the book was about, then read their chosen extract.<\/p>\n