The Robots invade Layton Library

It looked like today was going to be a boring day... But I Was Wrong.
Layton library is only ten minutes away from where I live and today they were having a "Brilliant Books" craft afternoon. Chris, Julie and the other hard working staff at the library were kind enough to invite me down to take part.

It was a nice sunny day outside so I wasn't sure how many people would turn up... but it was great to see that lots of people did come (and a good job too because it started raining outside)
I told a couple of stories and then everyone got down to the serious business of building robots, making bookmarks, colouring in and taking part in the book character treasure hunt. Up above you can see a wonderful model of Sparks - one of the robot characters from Robo-runners - made by Charlotte.

Here you can see Daniel and Amy with their excellent robot creations. Daniel's is called Spidey. (Something makes me think that Daniel is a Spiderman fan.) It looks like Spidey would be very good at doing lots of different things with all those arms. Amy's robot is called Robo... brilliant stuff.

Instead of making a robot person, Ben Armstead made a super sool robot owl with the bits an pieces he found. Ben's robot is called Hootey... which I think is a great name for a robo-owl. I wonder if I could have a robo-owl in one of my books?

I think that Katie is a big Jacqueline Wilson fan - she made a marvelous Tracie Beaker model...

Lauren made the biggest robot...here she is with Robo-boy.
As well as meeting lots of new people at the library it was a nice surprise to meet a few people that I'd met before. I met Saul last year when I went to visit a local school and today we had a chat about Robo-runners and Snail's Legs. Saul made a really interesting character called Top Hat Dancer.

Thanks to everyone that came along and made the afternoon so much fun... and for making me feel so welcome. I'm looking forward to going back to Layton library in September to meet the Chatterbooks group and find out what everyone is reading... see you there. I'll have to remember to take a couple of my favourite books along too.