This Friday, 15th May, CEL  will only be open from 14:30-17:30
Relax at home with your books in the morning and come along in the afternoon for music and singing with Richard – and to get new books!

Hello Members, Volunteers, and Supporters,

We will be closed on Friday May 1st for the national holiday.
We will be open on Saturday May 2 from 2-5 pm for normal opening hours.

This coming Saturday May 2nd from 9:30-12:00, we will have our annual Spring Clean. We would appreciate all the help we can get so if you can spare some time, come on over to the library and help us clean it up. There will be coffee and pastries to sweeten the deal. Bring your own bucket!

Thanks you to everyone that showed up for our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday. We reviewed the activities and work of the board for 2025 as well as our financial status. It was a good year at CEL with a lot of engagement and fun activities and quite a bit of fundraising. Thank you to all of our board members and to everyone that volunteered in 2025. We are a volunteer run organization and without volunteers, we can’t exist.
We had two board members that stepped down from the board this year. Jane Eggert stepped down after an amazing 12 years on the board as treasurer. Thank you, Jane, for all of the time and energy you have given to the library. You have done so much for the CEL including during the Pandemic when you handled the majority of the contactless lending and kept the library running in those very challenging times.
Divya Rao stepped down after a 3 year term as secretary. Thank you, Divya, for all of your time and energy that you gave to the library. We will miss you both!
Welcome to our two newest board members, Shelly Nicholson and Anna Gentle!

Wishing you all a nice first of May,

The CEL board

Dear Members,

Thank you to all those who supported our Open Day last Saturday.

Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday April 22nd at 7:00 pm at the library.
We will review the work of the Board of Directors and the activities of the CEL for 2025 as well as hold elections for new board members. If you are interested in joining the board, please email Liz.Weiser@celstuttgart.de.
Please let us know if you will be joining us or send your apologies to info@celstuttgart.de.
Donations of nibbles welcome.

Are you ready for the CEL Readathon?
You can download your forms here https://celstuttgart.de/activities/welcome-to-cel-2/ or collect them from the Children’s English Library e.V. at the Open Day on Saturday.
Join in – read lots – raise money for CEL!

Easter school holidays begin this Saturday March 28 until Sunday April 12. During this time the library will only be open on Friday afternoon April 10th from 2:30-5:30 pm. Regular opening hours resume beginning Friday April 17th.

Best wishes,
The CEL Board

Update: We will be open next Friday afternoon – 20th February Holiday Opening 14:30-17:30 only

Apologies for the confusion following the mail yesterday, we do have a volunteer to staff the library so are all set for you to come and change your books 😃📚

Our 7th annual Children’s Book Drive is officially done and dusted! We gave away 698 books and 119 pixies to 5 different Children’s Homes. The directors of these organizations were all so happy and grateful to receive so many fantastic books again this year.

Thank you to everyone that donated books, helped spread the word about our book drive, and especially for helping us to do something in memory of Henry. We are spreading some love and magic out into our community with these gifts of books and it’s a wonderful thing. ❤️

CEL will be closed for the school holidays from Saturday December 20- January 6. The first day open after the holidays will be January 9, 2026.