Prize occasion for young Big Friendly Read winners

Nearly 1,000 youngsters took part in the Summer Reading Challenge Big Friendly Read throughout Bury Libraries.

This is a national reading campaign aimed at reducing the dip in reading over the summer holidays. All those who read six books were entered into a draw to win prizes including a Kindle Fire, sets of Roald Dahl books, book tokens and a voucher kindly donated by Tesco Prestwich.

Prizes were presented at Ramsbottom Library on October 3 by assistant librarian Sarah Howell, and some winners even took the opportunity to borrow more library books while they were there.

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Press release issued: 4 October 2016.

Picture: With their Summer Reading Challenge prizes are (from left) Sonal Mistry (aged 9), Elise Sinaga (7) and Ophelia Melbourne (6). Other prize winners were Erin Diggle, Adina Ross, Holly Baker and Alison Duxbury.