Children share Polish language stories

By Melanie Defries, Nursery World, 14 February 2008

Polish children are enjoying weekly storytelling sessions in their mother tongue at a Blackpool public library.

The half-hour 'bajki po polsku' - Polish storytime - sessions, open to all children but targeted at those from Polish families, take place at Blackpool Central Library on Saturday mornings. Eliza Marland, a library assistant from Poland, who has worked at the library for three years, reads to the children. Library manager Anna Stevens said, 'We've always had a lot of seasonal workers come to Blackpool from Poland, but over the past two or three more and more families have settled and their children are starting school in the area. We've...

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