This weekend saw the start of this year’s Summer Reading Challenge here in Wales and local MP Robin Millar is encouraging young people throughout Aberconwy to take part.
The Summer Reading Challenge, presented by The Reading Agency and funded by the Books Council of Wales and Arts Council England, is the UK's biggest reading for pleasure programme for primary school aged children.
Each year the Challenge motivates over 700,000 children of all abilities to read for enjoyment over the summer holidays. Children can sign up for free at a participating library or take part online on the official Summer Reading Challenge website.
This year, The Reading Agency is partnering with national children's charity the Youth Sport Trust for Ready, Set, Read!, a sports and games themed challenge that aims to keep children's minds and bodies active over the summer break. Find out more by visiting robin-millar.org.uk/reading
Children sign up for free through their local library and receive a fun pack. Alternatively, children can take part online at summerreadingchallenge.org.uk
Commenting on the challenge, Robin said:
“We’re fortunate to have five super libraries here in Aberconwy and I’m delighted that they are all supporting this year’s Summer Reading Challenge. Last month I met with librarian Tracey in Conwy library to talk about their preparations and why the Challenge, and reading in general, is so important. Full details of the Challenge are on my website, and I hope that as many young people as possible will take part.”
Continuing, he said:
“This year, the Publishers Association have again asked for my recommendation for the Parliamentary Summer Reading List.
“Earlier this year I was asked by Welsh Guards veterans to lead their campaign for the release of the official report into the sinking of RFA Sir Galahad by Argentinian Forces during the Falklands War. This was a tragic event in which 38 Welsh Guardsmen lost their lives.
“So, with that in mind, top of my reading list is “Too Thin for a Shroud” by veteran Crispin Black which tells the story of how eight young officers of the Welsh Guards found themselves despatched at short notice to fight 8000 miles away in the Falklands and about how ten minutes can change the course of history.
“I’d love to hear your recommendations for summer reading – the suggestion can be any book you think people would enjoy reading this summer - be it fiction or non-fiction, a classic or a new release, a children's story book or a poetry collection. Whatever it is, I’d love to hear about it. You can send your recommendations to robin.millar.mp@parliament.uk”