Living Library by Ann Evans
l-r:Kevin Brooke, Chas Eden, Sheryl Browne, Polly Robinson, Sue Johnson, Ann Evans, Linda Bromyard, Karen King, Rod Griffiths, Diana Harrison. It's always a good thing to inspire the next generation to have a love of books and reading, so I wanted to tell you about the Living Library event that I've been involved with over the last couple of years. It's organised by friend and school librarian Linda Bromyard for her school – Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College, usually for years 7 or 8. As she tells the children, usually when you go into a library, you see books. On these occasions they come into the library and meet authors. There's generally between 8-10 local authors, both traditionally published and self published who give up a couple of hours of their time for free to take part. Each author has their own table to display their books, leaflets, bookmarks, posters etc. Then small groups of children – no more than four ...