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Laughing Librarians It's getting colder outside, winter is coming! Hopefully these will make you laugh! Keep laughing with us! #jokeoftheday #laughwithus #bestmedicine

We are delighted to announce the re-opening of Sarn Library on Monday 30th November to offer the popular Book and Collect service as well as browsing, computer appointments and bookable study space. Opening hours will vary slightly as the branch will open for the following hours: Monday: 9:15am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm... Tuesday: 9:15am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Wednesday: 9:15am - 1pm Thursday: 9:15am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Friday: 9:15am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm To make an appointment for a computer or to book a study space please call Sarn Library on 01656 754853

Here are the answers for this weeks book quiz. 1. Which journalist and newspaper interviewer wrote An Education, a 2009 memoir of her teenage love affair with a much older man? Lynn Barber (the film version, written by Nick Hornby, was based on a shorter version of the same story that Barber had earlier published in Granta magazine) 2. Which fictional school, created by the cartoonist Ronald Searle, featured in seven films between 1954 and 2009?... St. Trinian’s 3. In a play by Christopher Marlowe, which scholar at the University of Wittenberg pledges his body and soul to the Devil in return for 24 years of being able to do whatever he likes? Dr. Faustus (in The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus) 4. Who wrote the play The School for Scandal, first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1777? Richard Brinsley Sheridan 5. Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches features in the children’s classic The Worst Witch by whom? Jill Murphy 6.George, Martha, Honey and Nick are the four characters in which play by Edward Albee, where the action takes place in the drunken aftermath of a university faculty party? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 7. Which 1959 novel by E. R. Braithwaite, based on his own experiences of being a black teacher in London, became a film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier and Lulu? To Sir, With Love 8. Who won the 2006 Man Booker Prize with The Inheritance of Loss, in which one of the main characters has a relationship with her maths tutor? Kiran Desai 9. Which aristocratic detective, who graduated from Oxford with a first-class degree while also becoming a cricket blue was created by Dorothy L. Sayers? Lord Peter Wimsey 10. Which Nigerian former teacher wrote the 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, one of the first African novels to receive global acclaim? Chinua Achebe 11. In a series of books by Rick Riordan that begins with The Lightning Thief, what’s the name of the eponymous main character whose teacher Mrs Dodds turns out to be a mythological Fury? Percy Jackson 12. In 1965 a novel by John Williams about a university teacher in Missouri was published and sold fewer than 2,000 copies. It was republished in 2003, nine years after Williams’s death, and became a worldwide bestseller. What was the novel’s title which was also the main character’s surname? Stoner #bookquiz #answers #literature #coffeebreak

It's getting colder so we need to wrap up warm when we go outside. We were feeling inspired by this for this weeks craft! Make with the kids this great mitten craft You will need: Paper... Scissors Glue Assortment of Foam Stickers Cotton Balls Yarn Printable Mitten Template Print the mittens or draw then onto colorful paper and have the kids cut them out. Glue the cut out mittens onto a different coloured paper. Glue on some stretched out cotton balls to to make fluffy trim for the mittens. Decorated them with foam stickers, sequins or craft jewels however the kids desire. #craft #kidsfun #warmandcosy #itscoldoutside

The Final Chapter Thank you for joining us this week for 'The Ghost Tower'! We hope you're all enjoying the stories. Have a great Halloween weekend everyone!

Here are the answers to our Halloween quiz! 1, What date is Halloween celebrated on? 31st October ... 2, What fruit do we carve and use as lanterns on Halloween? Pumpkins 3, What animal can vampires supposedly turn into? Bats 4, What is another name for Halloween? All Hallows’ eve 5, What animal is a witch’s best friend? Black cat 6, What type of creature is Shrek? Ogre 7, What’s the name of the small, green, one-eyed monster from ‘Monsters Inc’? Mike Wazowski 8, Who wrote ‘Room on the Broom’? Julia Donaldson 10, What’s the name of the main character in ‘The Worst Witch’? Mildred Hubble #quiz#kids#halloween#trickortreat

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Did you feel that chill? We definitely felt a chill...

Laughing Librarians We are looking at all things spooktacular this week as it's nearly Halloween Keep laughing with us! #jokeoftheday #laughwithus #bestmedicine

Chapter's 7 and 8! Finale tomorrow

We love Halloween at Awen Libraries! Do you? Here's a Halloween themed quiz to test how much you know about Halloween! 1, What date is Halloween celebrated on? ... 2, What fruit do we carve and use as lanterns on Halloween? 3, What animal can vampires supposedly turn into? 4, What is another name for Halloween? 5, What animal is a witch’s best friend? 6, What type of creature is Shrek? 7, What’s the name of the small, green, one-eyed monster from ‘Monsters Inc’? 8, Who wrote ‘Room on the Broom’? 10, What’s the name of the main character in ‘The Worst Witch’? #quiz#kids#halloween#trickortreat

Today's Halloween craft is this paper plate witch A few simple items is all that is needed to make this great craft. Things you will need Paper plate ... Paint Coloured paper (or you can paint plain paper) Glue How to make Paint the paper plate green and draw the witches face details onto the plate Draw round your little ones hands and cut out 4 handprints out of orange paper to glue onto the plate for the hair Cut the witches hat out of black paper, add a purple stripe for detail. Glue all the pieces onto the plate and your witch will be complete #craft#halloween#witch#fun#halfterm

Here are the answers to the horror book quiz. How many did you get correct? 1, It - Stephen King... 2, The Woman in Black - Susan Hill 3, Dracula - Bram Stoker 4, The Turn of the Screw - Henry James 5, The Complete Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe 6, Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 7, The Shining - Stephen King 8, The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris 9, The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty 10, The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson #books#horror#quiz#covers

Get your lego out this half term and make some spooky creations! Share your spooktacular lego designs with us.

Well well... who knew Bryngarw had a little pest? You'll be looking twice at the shadows in the windows now!