How exciting the posters for our 2015 Let’s Read English Campaign have arrived. And they look fabulous.

Elsie & Marvin are true Monster A-List Celebs! We have had 100 (A3) printed, distribution starting soon …

Books in a Box – supporting our Let’s Read English Campaign, The Little English Library is giving away all their spare English children’s books to be used in school and classroom libraries.

The first Breda-based Primary schools have already been in touch – think free Veggie Box but with books. Are you a Primary School based in or around Breda?  Email us for details: info@littlelibrary.nl

It’s the National Voorleesdagen 2015 in the Netherlands and many Dutch schools are asking parents to come in and read to the children. And of course, I joined in and it was such good fun. I visited two Kleuter (Reception) classes this morning and performed an English Dutch Bear Hunt. I read and acted it out in English, the class teacher did it parallel in Dutch. And yes, Squelch is not the same in Dutch. It was super, a few more performances scheduled for next week and I can’t wait! 

Let me present our 2015 campaign starring Elsie & Marvin. This campaign is aimed at both English Native Speakers living abroad and English Language learners. Please share and share so it gets to other schools and libraries. Let’s s get children excited about reading & munching a book. If you need a pdf A3 or A4, pls email. Thank You.

The Little English Library has had a good start to the year. Yesterday, I was in touch with the British Council NL. Due to the great focus on English at Primary School Level currently in the Netherlands, the British Council is actively promoting their resources for Young Learners and increasing their links with schools and libraries. As we are based in a Primary School and the majority of our members are English Language Learners, they were very interested to hear about this project. And I think they like it as I have been asked me to send through any information on events, campaigns, news etc and when possible, they will help promote and communicate – hurrah. Thank you.

I am also delighted to announce that I have finally done some counting – see photo of book-take-out forms. And the latests statistics show that 647 books were taken out during this autumn / winter term of the 2014/15 academic year. We now have 192 members from 16 local schools.

And finally books, my word, it is looking good. We have just added another 70 and more are to come. I hear my friend Erica still has a couple of bags waiting for us. Thank you. I have also been asked about adding some French / Spanish books? Well, I might just have to add an ‘International’ category. Many thanks for all your support.