Children's Activities - Easter 2011

Easter Fun For Kids

Bring your kids to the library this Easter for some fun activities. 

Storytime takes place every Thursday at 3pm with stories, nursery rhymes, songs and colouring, the more children involved the more fun it is. Art & Craft sessions will take place on Wednesday and Thursdays during the Easter break. Don't forget our parent & toddler morning which takes place every Friday from 10.30am - 12.00pm, its a great way to meet other parents and have some adult conversation while at the same time introducing your child to the world of books!

Crafts 4-6yrs Thursdays 3.30pm

Thursday  21st April 3.30pm

Thursday 28th April 3.30pm

Crafts 7-10yrs Wednesdays 3.30pm

Wednesday  20th April 3.30pm

Wednesday 27th April 3.30pm

Book of the Month

Lost and lonely, there are many books languishing on the shelves in Watch House Cross Library which although highly acclaimed have either never been borrowed or have only been read once. This new feature hopes to address their plight and encourage our members to take a leap and try something new.

 I'm Not Scared - Niccoló Ammanti


It's a blistering hot summer and nine year old Michele and his gang are exploring the scorched wheatfields that surround their village. When they find an abandoned farmhouse, they place a game of forfeits and Michele makes a terrifying discovery. 'I'm not scared' explores the complex path from childhood innocence to the dark reality of the adult world.


I'm Not Scared is an exquisite parable. Ammaniti's short staccato sentences effectively describe the isolation and simplicity of rural subsistence, while long passages of direct dialogue touchingly portray the children's naive perceptions.' Daily Telegraph


'Niccolo Ammaniti is a writer of vigourous imagination and moral subtlety, [and] Jonathon Hunt's translation is fluent and forceful' Times Literary Supplement

1911 Census Centenary Celebration

Watch House Cross Library invites you to a celebration of the centenary of the 1911 census

Saturday 2nd April @ 2.30pm

Guest Speakers will discuss,

• Why celebrate the 1911 census?

• How to search the census.

• Social history of the time and the census.

Free Admission. All Welcome.

Book of the Month

Lost and lonely, there are many books languishing on the shelves in Watch House Cross Library which although highly acclaimed have either never been borrowed or have only been read once. This new feature hopes to address their plight and encourage our members to take a leap and try something new. 


This month's book which received rave reviews in 2006 and has recently been made in to a film, has never been borrowed from the library before.

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell,
is an extraordinarily evocative novel set in the Ozark hills in America, it follows the Ree Dolly a 16 year old girl on a quest to find her father and save her family from ruin.


It brings us all the satisfactions of crime thriller and mystery...The beauty lies in the loveable and wholly believable character of Ree' (Guardian )

'A suspicion grows that you are reading the sort of book D.B.C Pierre's Vernon God Little might have been, had it been five times as keenly observed and deeply felt' (The Times )



'Reading this will make you feel that you walk on very, very thin ice, and know that chaos is very, very close. Such knowledge has many consequences, one of them is exhilaration.'
(Niall Griffiths, Observer )


Try it, you might like it ....... Other lost books to follow every month ....

Alan Quinlan Visit

A big Thank You! to Alan Quinlan for taking time out to visit the library and to Bord Gais & Limerick 95 Fm for a fantastic day