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As a busy summer season got underway, Jason and his books were back in the Garden Suburb Schools playing field for the annual Summer Fair.
While the playground was filled with food, drink and craft stalls, alongside the performance area, Jason’s book stall was nestled among an ever growing array of giant inflatables and other field games.
But on the way to and from the giant slide and the axe-throwing, no-one could avoid seeing Jason’s array of second-hand books, alongside his own picture books, and a little juggling beside the book stall helped to draw people in – although the balls and clubs tended to attract more grown-ups than children.
From junior-school children, keen to browse through the second-hand picture books, to infant-school pupils stopping to hear readings from his anarchic rhyming books and pre-schoolers listening to the more gentle What Can You See?, there was a constant flow of enthusiastic young readers.
“Especially in the National Year of Reading, it’s great to see children flocking to check out the books, when there are giant inflatables just metres away,” enthused Jason. “But the best thing is always hearing the younger children – and their parents – laughing at my ridiculous rhymes, especially when you realise that although the books are getting older, along with the original audiences, there are new children growing old enough to enjoy them all the time.”
[…] among the array of giant inflatables, axe-throwing and archery at the school summer fair, Jason employed a bit of juggling to draw in children to his book stall, selling pre-read books for […]