"READ WITH ME" IN "Sava DOBROPLODNI" Regional Library - Sliven

"Sava Dobroplodni" Regional Library - Sliven opened doors for fans of the good books of all ages who took part in the biggest national reading campaign "Read to me" on June 11, 2016. Traditionally for the third year children and adults read excerpts from their favorite books. The Reading Marathon began at 10.00 sharp in Children's department where children and parents read excerpts from "Strange thing" by Dora Gabe, "On the path of the rainbow" by Leda Mileva, "Small frog stories" by Radichkov. Children enjoyed much the merry adventures of Lisko by Boris Aprilov. They also read several letters of the little dachshund Jerry from the book "Dear Brother" by Stanka Pancheva. The most preferred by children Bulgarian folk tales were: "The fox and the hedgehog", "The Bear and the bad word", "Three Brothers and golden apple", "Tell me spinning wheel", "Unborn Petko", etc. Books from foreign authors that were read were: "Pippi Longstocking" and "Karlsson-on-the-roof" by Astrid Lindgren, "The jungle book" by the English writer Rudyard Joseph Kipling, tales by Charles Perrault, Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm. Teenagers preffered to read excerpts from "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, Silvana de Marie - "The Last Elf". Also J. K. Rowling’s "Harry Potter", "Quidditch through the Ages" and "The Tales of Beedle the Bard."

The readers in the foreign language center read excerpts from books in foreign languages as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by the American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Ficciones" by Jorge Luis Borges, "Vanity Fair" by the English novelist William Thackeray, "King Solomon's Mines" by the English author H. Rider Haggard, etc others.

A nice surprise for all participants in the original reading marathon was reading excerpts from favorite books in French and German. They also read excerpts from "Nathan the Wise" by Gothold Lessing, "Faust" by Johann Goethe, "The Life of Galileo" by Bertolt Brecht and the novel "Hello pain" by the French novelist Francoise Sagan, works by Jean Anouilh and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s "Night flight" and "Land of the people".

For all those who participated in the reading, the organizers of the library provided stickers from the campaign "Read to me" and the youngest readers also received as a gift "Barborino" magazine.

 By participating in the campaign readers of the library showed that reading can be appropriate, fun, enjoyable and beneficial pastime and a wonderful opportunity to find new friends.