{"id":15939,"date":"2024-04-25T10:42:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=15939"},"modified":"2024-04-25T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:42:57","slug":"exciting-new-library-programme-for-under-4s-aims-to-boost-childrens-love-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/exciting-new-library-programme-for-under-4s-aims-to-boost-childrens-love-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting new library programme for under-4s aims to boost children\u2019s love of books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exciting new early years reading programme, with stickers to collect, has been launched in libraries across Devon and Torbay, aiming to inspire a lifelong love of reading.<\/p>\n<p>Libraries Unlimited, which runs libraries in Devon on our behalf, is launching Libro&#8217;s Friends, which is an extension of their hugely successful, The Secret Book Quest. Both programmes have been created as part of Libraries Unlimited\u2019 s drive to boost the reading skills of children in the county.<\/p>\n<p>The Secret Book Quest uses a free sticker collection book to set older children a 50-book goal and takes them on a journey through topics ranging from space to animals.<\/p>\n<p>With Libro\u2019s Friends, under-5s will get a similar sticker book and the chance to collect eight unique stickers to find out where Libro the Cat\u2019s animal friends are hiding.<\/p>\n<p>Children who go to their library with their parents or carers and sign up for Libro\u2019s Friends will get the sticker book for free. They\u2019ll be invited to set a goal to visit the library eight times and enjoy a story.\u00a0For each library visit, they\u2019re given a sticker which will reveal one of Libro\u2019s animal pals including Marli the mouse, Ollie the owl and Faisal the fox.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.librariesunlimited.org.uk\/news\/exciting-new-library-programme-for-under-4s-aims-to-boost-childrens-love-of-books\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Libraries Unlimited&#8217; s news page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2020\/06\/LIBRARIES-UNLIMITED.jpg\" alt=\"Libraries Unlimited logo\" width=\"213\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exciting new early years reading programme, with stickers to collect, has been launched in libraries across Devon and Torbay, aiming to inspire a lifelong love of reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 16:38:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15940,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions\/15940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}