Reading can take you from adventures on the high seas with pirates like Long John Silver to English forests with bandits like Robin Hood, as a character in a skit performed by the Elmore Stoutt High School Drama Society learned.
In the skit performed Monday morning for the opening of Library Week, the main character didn’t read until he’d had his electronic device taken away by his mother, but once he picked up a few books, he realised that they can be just as entertaining.
Other speakers at the opening ceremony said they hope ESHS students will discover their own love of books, reading and libraries.
“Books let you expand your horizons without leaving your armchair,” Andria Norman-Flax told the students. The author of The Way We Were said books can be a window into worlds that don’t exist anymore, like the pre-electricity Virgin Islands.
She also encouraged the students to read books and poetry by VI writers like Quincy Lettsome, Jennie Wheatley, Sheila Braithwaite and Ayana Hull, and to follow their example.
“There are still stories waiting to be told,” Ms. Norman-Flax said.
See the April 25, 2013 edition for full coverage.
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