1. Xmas in
the LRC

2. What’s On in the LRC
•Christmas
Competitions
•Christmas Reads

3. Christmas Bookmark
• Decorate a blank bookmark
with a festive theme and
celebrate reading this
Christmas.
• Blank bookmark templates are
available from the LRC office.
• Closing date:
Friday 9th December

4. Christmas Reads
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Scrooge is a tight-fisted old miser who refuses to
celebrate Christmas. But on the Christmas Eve the
ghost of his old partner, Marley, comes to visit him
and shows him the old ghosts of Christmas
Past, Present and Future, he is forced to change his
mind…
Available from
the LRC

5. Christmas Mini Saga
• Can you write a mini saga
using 50 words or less on
the theme of Christmas?
• Entry forms are available
from the LRC office or
from Mrs Cowie
• Closing date: Wednesday
14th December

6. Christmas Reads
• The Christmas Mystery – Jostein Gaarder
‘A young boy finds a faded, home-made Advent
calendar in a bookshop. Out of the first window
falls a piece of paper on which is written the first
part of an extraordinary story about a small girl
who travels back in time to Bethlehem and the
birth of Christ… Meanwhile, the intertwining story
of the present unfolds, and the boy finds out about
the strange man who made the calendar and
about a girl who disappeared on Christmas Eve
forty years ago…’
Available from the LRC

7. Mystery Read
• Pick a mystery read from
under the Christmas tree.
• Write a book review on
the mystery read.
• Closing date:
Friday 13th January 2012

8. Christmas Reads
• The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories – Wendy
Cooling (ed.)
Christmas Day brings a special surprise present for
James; Gabriel is afraid of singing the solo in front
of everyone at the carol service; and Scrooge
receives a warning from a ghostly visitor.
Available from
the LRC

9. Belmont LRC Online
Keep up-to-date with what’s happening in the LRC:
http://belmontlrc.blogspot.com