Here at Kensal Library we boast a colourful and friendly area for the many children that come through our doors on a daily basis. The library has a range of fiction to suit the demands of these young people, and our reservation shelves are often filled with exciting stories about pirates, fairies, spies, talking bears, crime fighting cows and more. (If you’d like to reserve a book – just speak to a member of staff).
I was thrilled at the chance to showcase some of my childhood favourites, alongside some of the most popular junior fiction in recent days. We are particularly proud of our collection and, as the Summer Reading Challenge commences, felt now was the perfect opportunity to introduce our readers to some of the best-loved characters and stories around. Therefore we have a vibrant new display with facts and pictures introducing books to suit all tastes and ages. We’re sure any young visitor will find something to sink their teeth into in the summer sun.
Kensal Library would love to hear what your most cherished children’s stories are, so feel free to drop by and fill in one of our display cards so that other young people can read about the heroes and adventures that you hold dear.
Quiz time!
To celebrate the wealth of stories available in Kensal and local libraries across the nation I’ve compiled a quiz. Below I have included some quotes from the most well-liked children’s books of the last few centuries.
Do you recognise them? Answers are at the bottom of the page!
“We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE”
“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
“Grab a chance and you won’t be sorry for a might-have-been.”
“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
“Where’s Papa going with that axe?”
“In an old house in Paris That was covered with vines, Lived twelve little girls In two straight lines . . .”
One, two! One, two! And through and through, The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
” . . . and he sailed off through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are.”
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
Quiz answers….
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Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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The Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
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His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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Charlotte’s Webb by E.B White
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Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
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The Jabberwocky from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carrol
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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A Milne
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Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone (Albus Dumbledore of course!)
Sophie Rose, Customer Services Assistant
Kensal Library
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