Xmas in the LRC

What’s On in the LRC

•Christmas Competitions•Christmas Reads

Christmas Bookmark

• Decorate a blank bookmark with a festive theme and celebrate reading this Christmas.

• Blank bookmark templates are available from the LRC office.

• Closing date: Friday 9th December

Christmas Reads

• A Christmas Carol – Charles DickensScrooge is a tight-fisted old miser who refuses to celebrate Christmas. But on the Christmas Eve the ghost of his old partner, Marley, comes to visit him and shows him the old ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, he is forced to change his mind…

Available from the

LRC

Christmas Mini Saga

• Can you write a mini saga using 50 words or less on the theme of Christmas?• Entry forms are available

from the LRC office or from Mrs Cowie• Closing date: Wednesday

14th December

Christmas Reads

• The Christmas Mystery – Jostein Gaarder‘A young boy finds a faded, home-made Advent calendar in a bookshop. Out of the first window falls a piece of paper on which is written the first part of an extraordinary story about a small girl who travels back in time to Bethlehem and the birth of Christ… Meanwhile, the intertwining story of the present unfolds, and the boy finds out about the strange man who made the calendar and about a girl who disappeared on Christmas Eve forty years ago…’

Available from the LRC

Mystery Read• Pick a mystery read from

under the Christmas tree.• Write a book review on

the mystery read.• Closing date:

Friday 13th January 2012

Christmas Reads

• The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories – Wendy Cooling (ed.)Christmas Day brings a special surprise present for James; Gabriel is afraid of singing the solo in front of everyone at the carol service; and Scrooge receives a warning from a ghostly visitor.

Available from the

LRC

Belmont LRC Online

Keep up-to-date with what’s happening in the LRC:http://belmontlrc.blogspot.com