Summer Reading Challenge 2009 - Award Ceremony

St. Nessan's 1st Year Library Tour

Over 60 1st Year students from St. Nessan's Community College were treated to a tour of our library, where they were shown how to join, and the wide selection of CD's DVD's and books on offer for their age group. Afterwards they enjoyed a 15 min computer session where the students travelled from the Library to the Pyramids of Giza using Google Earth!

Junior Book Club

Calling all readers!

Have you always got your head stuck in a book?

Have you been caught reading under the bedcovers by torchlight?

Meet other kids once a month with the same addiction to books

for chat & activities on books, books & more books!

Watch House Cross Library

Children's Book Club

for 9-12 year olds

Starting in October 2009

If you are interested in joining

talk to us at the Library Desk

or call us on 061-457726

Arts & Crafts: The Splendid Castles of WHC

Arts & Crafts: Matisse comes to the Library

Henri Matisse was a French painter who became very famous for using extraordinarily bold colors. Later in life, as his health began to fail, Matisse turned to making collages. His last, and most important works were a collection of mixed-media collages. Matisse arranged boldly colored paper cutouts into striking compositions, and added text in his own handwriting to produce a book that has been referred to as "the visual counterpart of jazz music".

Henri Matisse wrote: "The paper cutouts allow me to draw with color. For me, it is a simplification. Instead of drawing an outline and then filling in with color - with one modifying the other - I draw directly in color... It is not a starting point, it is a completion."

Today 3 of our younger members created their own Matisse inspired collages...