Christmas Opening Hours

Hear ye hear ye...!

The Library will close on Wednesday 23rd December at 4pm until Wednesday 30th December, inclusive.
It will re-open Thursday 31st December for the day.
It will be closed Friday 1st January and will reopen again on Saturday the 2nd January.
Please note the Library is closed every Sunday and Monday.

Merry Christmas from the staff at Watch House Cross Library!

Christmas Origami 2009 - A Christmas Tree

This year we did Christmas Tree Origami with the 7-12 years olds at the last session arts & crafts on December 19th. If you don't know what origami is have a look at this link

New Bookmarks - Fiction Classification

As of today we have new bookmarks to give to all our borrowers (while stock lasts) which shows the different genres that we have arranged in the library.

Crackers Christmas Crafts!

The Homework Club's End of Year Exhibition & Carol Signing

Children's Fun This Christmas!

Arts & Crafts for 7-12 Years Olds

Saturday 28th November 3-4pm

Saturday 5th December 3-4pm

Saturday 12th December 3-4pm

Saturday 19th December 3-4pm

Stories & Art for 4-6 Years

Thursday 3rd December 3-4pm

Thursday 10th December 3-4pm

Thursday 17th December 3-4pm

No booking necessary, first come first served.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Xmas Arts & Crafts

Our beautiful Xmas tree that is now adorned by home made decorations made in this weeks' Arts & Crafts Class..

Artist in Residence Creates Winter Window Wonderland!

Children's Bookclub (9-12 year olds) - December 2009

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

The main characters in this story are brothers Charlie and Tommo Peaceful.
The first half of the story is set in the village in which Charlie and Tommo live with their family. Here we see Tommo struggle with a secret that burdens him but he is afraid to tell to anyone; Charlie takes the place of father figure in the family when their own father dies; Charlie and Tommo meet and make friends with Molly, and their friendship is tested when they both fall in love with her; their oldest brother Big Joe goes missing; and all the while Grandma Wolf and the Colonel undermine the close family and inflict cruelty on them...and thats just the first half of the book!

In the second half of the book the story moves to the trenches in World War I where both brothers have enlisted in the army. The book dosen't flinch from the realities of war - trenchfoot, lice, loneliness, fear and death; and Michael Morpurgo writes so descriptively that the kids said they felt they were there with Charlie and Tommo living the story.

This book has many themes and plots running through it but never get complicated. It's interesting, exciting and sad and you wont put it down until you come to the last page...and if you're Hugh you'll get to the last page...and then start reading it all over again!
Everyone in the Bookclub without exception loved this book. We gave it 9 1/2 out of 10.


Michael Morpurgo has written over 100 childrens books...
War Horse
The Butterfly Lion
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Arthur, High King of Britain
Kensuke's Kingdom
Farm Boy
Cool!
Why The Whale Came...


He has won lots of awards for his writing including The Smarties Prize, The Whitbread Award and The Childrens Book Award.


His favourite book growing up was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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