The 2016 Summer Reading Challenge, the Big Friendly Read, saw 123 young readers complete the challenge, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of author Roald Dahl.
Supported by the Henry Bloom Noble Library the Summer Reading Challenge tasked four to 11-year-olds to borrow and read six library books over the summer Children taking part received a special collector’s folder and as they borrowed and read at least six library books over the summer, they collected six special cards to complete it, plus other incentives. The cards all featured original Quentin Blake illustrations and explored some of most popular themes in Roald Dahl’s books such as invention, mischief and friendship.
At the prize presentation at Cronk y Berry primary school the Mayor of Douglas John Skinner congratulated the children on their ‘marvellous achievement’.
The 2016 Summer Reading Challenge was the 10th to be supported by the library.
The Mayor and Mayoress of Douglas John and Gill Skinner with some of the Big Friendly Read prize winners. Picture Andrew Barton
