"Sava Dobroplodni" Regional Library - Sliven successfully launched the initiatives devoted to the National campaign "Read with Me"

"Sava Dobroplodni" Regional Library - Sliven launched the initiatives dedicated to the National campaign "Read with me" with Open doors days on 24 and 25 of September 2014. The library was attended by over 550 children and teenagers from different schools in Sliven during these two days.
More than 190 children visited the library on September 24. They took part in various initiatives: educational trips in the library, quizzes and literary competitions, performances, etc. With great desire and enthusiasm children from preparatory group of Kindergarten "Mak", second-graders from IIIrd primary school "Dr. Ivan Seliminski" and Vth secondary school "Peyo Yavorov "and other litlle readers of the Children's Department participated in a literary marathon as they read with pleasure to their classmates excerpts from favorite Bulgarian folk tales, from "Matilda" by Roald Dahl and "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren. Parents who accompanied them read with them too. The youngest reading participant was six-year old Jacqueline Yavorova from Kindergarten "Mak".
Over 350 children and teens visited "Sava Dobroplodni" Regional Library - Sliven on September 25th - the second day of the Open doors days. They got acquainted with the recent acquisitions in the library and information services and participated in a kind of literary marathon. Sixth graders, seventh graders and juniors from Humanitarian High School "Damyan Damyanov" read "The Little Prince" by Exupery", “To Chicago and Back" by Aleko Konstantinov, verses by Hristo Botev and participated in a specially prepared literary quiz. Students from IIIrd primary school "Dr. Ivan Seliminski" and Vth secondary school "Peyo Yavorov" had entertaining classes reading books by Erich Kastner. Eighth graders from all classes of High school for foreign languages "Zahari Stoyanov" and seventh graders from IIIrd primary school "Dr. Ivan Seliminski" visited the Foreign language center of the library and participated in initiatives organized by the librarians dedicated to the European Day of Languages: Presentation "European Day of Languages - Unity in diversity", literary competitions, reading excerpts from the original books by contemporary English, American, German and French writers.
The results of the initiatives in the Open doors days in the library are more than inspiring and prove again that Sliven children are some of the best readers in the country and the longtime dedicated efforts of the library to initiate and organize events promoting reading from early childhood give their results and deserve the support of Sliven citizenship.
The initiatives of "Sava Dobroplodni" Regional Library in support of the campaign "Read with me" continue with the premiere of the book "Refugees" by Vesela Lyahova on September 26th, 2014.
Everyone who wants to join the Big read in the National campaign "Read with me" will have the chance to read excerpts from favorite books at 11:00 am in the library on 28th of September, 2014.