… a British author, comedian, actor and talent show judge. His books, like “Mr. Stink”, have sold more than 25 million copied and have been translate into more than 50 languages! Walliams has won many awards for his writing and for his many other endeavors as well. He even swam the English Channel AND the Strait of Gibraltar (not consecutively) to raise money for Sport Relief! In addition to “Mr. Stink”, CEL has lots of Walliams’ books available to take home, like “Awful Auntie” and “Billionaire Boy”. They’re found in junior fiction, come check one out soon.
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Friday Funtime – from 15:30
Over the next few weeks, my Friday activities will focus around Pirate Treasures. This week we’ll all work together to create a treasure chest filled with swag! Arrghh!
Tabea and Laura, our lovely volunteers from the International School will be joining us too to makes SMORES! Because PIRATES LOVE SMORES!
See you there!
Claire
Come and join us for our CEL Book Day and bring your friends
Saturday 16th February 10:00-17:00
– dress up as your favourite book character and enter our prize draw*.
– cake stall and chance to chat over coffee/tea/juice
– help make a book character collage for CEL
– readings
– face painting
– collect your Mini-Winter-Reading Challenge certificate
– and lots more…
*All those dressed up with receive a ticket. At the end of the day a ticket will be drawn from the hat and the owner of the ticket will receive a six-month free extension to their library membership. Non-members will have to join CEL and pay their first year’s fee before being able to claim the prize.
Experiment Workshop – this workshop is now full.
Join us for an exciting afternoon of experiments on Saturday January 19th!
This workshop is now oversubscribed.
Jingle bells, jingle bells!
FRIDAY FUNTIME 4:15pm START on Friday 7th December.
Our lovely student volunteers will be leading our Friday fun-time this week with whimsical Christmas tree decoration craft. Due to their school hours they’ll be starting a little later than usual giving you plenty of time to park, meander from the Ubahn, stop in the playground and choose your books.
Hope to see you there!
CEL Winter Mini Reading Challenge
You can collect your reading log from CEL or down load one here – ReadingLog
Note for Friday Fun families – tomorrow – 30th Nov. we will be starting at 16:15 as that is the earliest our student volunteers can make it.
Yule Log Workshop – Saturday 1st December
All CEL members are invited to join us on Saturday 1st December to make a seasonal decoration ready for the start of advent. You can drop in anytime between 14:00-16:30, but it would help with planning if you could e-mail workshops@celstuttgart.de to let us know you are coming!
Friday 16th Nov – Baking Friday Fun
If you didn’t have enough cookies and cakes at the CEL open afternoon on Saturday there will be baking on Friday afternoon – story time at 15:30 and afterwards the chance to make biscuits with Claire. Please let us know if you plan to join us – info@celstuttgart.de
Please note that due to volunteer work commitments – this Friday afternoon CEL will be open from15:00 (rather than 14:30)
Thank you also to all those who supported us, we raised over 300 euros to be split between CEL and 1st Stuttgart Rainbows/Brownies/Guides … and welcome to those new members who signed up on Saturday! Come and see us again at CEL soon.
November Spotlight is on books about giving thanks
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, our November Spotlight is on books about giving thanks. We have many Thanksgiving books, but we also have books about being thankful, like “Bear Says Thanks” and “Thanks a Kazillion”. Come check one out at the library!
Show & Tell at CEL – pre-order form for cakes and cookies
The girls from the 1st Stuttgart Rainbows, Brownies and Guides (with Emma’s help) will be baking cookies and cupcakes to sell at the CEL Show and Tell open afternoon (Saturday 10th November – 13:00-17:00) to raise funds to buy the necessary resources for the new Girlguiding programme unveiled this summer.
Pre-ordered cookies and cakes will be available for collection on the day. There will also be other cakes and delights made by the girls to eat at CEL with a cup of coffee or tea
during the open afternoon. (proceeds from this will go to CEL)
To avoid disappointment and to help us plan we would be grateful if you could indicate below how many cookies/cupcakes you would like to pre-order.
Please hand your donation and CakeOrderForm– in an envelope to the volunteer at the desk or e-mail to info@celstuttgart.de
If you can’t make the open day (or are feeling generous) you can also donate ingredients for the baking – there is a box at CEL
