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Tall Tales
Aug. 19th, 2005 09:22 pmYesterday ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler, samarcand and I talked our way into the pre-opening party of Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books. It's a project that's been several years in the making, growing from a two-woman campaign, then taking possession of an old mill by the Ouseburn (I remember an open day at the adjacent Lime Street artists' studios, when the Centre opened its doors to sell second hand books and display grandiose plans, which were tacked to the bare walls - they seemed then to be squatting in the derelict shell of a building), to this spectacularly rehabilitated palace of fun.
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As an adult who reads incessantly, and loves both the books of my childhood and the children's books I have discovered since, I had a good time, and will probably return to some future events; I'll even pay for my ticket. Whether Seven Stories will succeed in making reading appealing to children, and how much it will offer to those children who read - well, Jacqueline Wilson was there this morning, the doors have opened to paying customers, now we find out whether and how well it works.
durham_rambler, samarcand and I talked our way into the pre-opening party of Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books. It's a project that's been several years in the making, growing from a two-woman campaign, then taking possession of an old mill by the Ouseburn (I remember an open day at the adjacent Lime Street artists' studios, when the Centre opened its doors to sell second hand books and display grandiose plans, which were tacked to the bare walls - they seemed then to be squatting in the derelict shell of a building), to this spectacularly rehabilitated palace of fun.( Read more... )
As an adult who reads incessantly, and loves both the books of my childhood and the children's books I have discovered since, I had a good time, and will probably return to some future events; I'll even pay for my ticket. Whether Seven Stories will succeed in making reading appealing to children, and how much it will offer to those children who read - well, Jacqueline Wilson was there this morning, the doors have opened to paying customers, now we find out whether and how well it works.
