Celebrating young readers… Bossard Public Library Children’s Programs
By Lorna Hart - Special to OVP
Pictured are Kim Wilcoxon, Laura Erwin, Frosty, Nicholas Sheets and Rachael Barker of the Bossard Library.
All photos courtesy of the Bossard Library
As a way of promoting literacy and physical activity, the library hosts StoryWalk with the French Art Colony. This unique way to enjoy children’s books in an outside venue is permanently located on the grounds of the FAC. Pictured is Bossard Youth Services Program Coordinator Rachael Barker.
All photos courtesy of the Bossard Library
Library patron Oliver Morgan is pictured during the summer reading season. Summer reading is one of many programs for younger readers held throughout the year.
A reading miracle: The story of a son learning to read from his mother
Learning to read, for some of us, was a brilliant experience of the essentiality of home literacy activity. Many years ago in Primary class 4, the ability to speak English, Twi was not much of a challenge at all. The ability to sing songs and rhymes, and recite poems off-the-cuff in English was no big deal. To read however was as difficult as getting out of bed after night rains. A one-line sentence seemed like a 200-verse chapter from the Old Testament. It was difficult, boring and unattractive.