VOLUNTEERS from the Minchinhampton Community Library accompanied the big blue Bookstart Bear to the Coigne Nursery in Minchinhampton on Monday to encourage preschool children to use their local library.
This was a very timely visit as the children are learning this term about the people who help us.
It was one of a number of sessions that have been arranged for them including visits by the police, fire brigade and paramedics.
Minchinhampton Community Library, which is run entirely by volunteers, has just started offering the Bookstart Bear club.
The club is free for children from birth until they start school.
They get a passport in which to collect paw-print stamps whenever they take out books or attend library events such as baby bounce and rhyme or the craft days.
Completed passports can be exchanged for amazing certificates.
Nina Bryan, a regular volunteer at Minchinhampton Community Library, said: “We are promoting the message that books are for everyone, whatever their age, and that there is something for everyone at their local library”.
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