From Marie Østergård on Facebook:
54 kids, 9-12 year old and 4 adults on a 14 hour all night Readathon at Dokk1.
They rocked the place!
We didn’t get any sleep but got to see the library taken over by intense playing, reading, joking, running and much more. Who knew Dokk1 had so many places to camp out?! A great reminder of what libraries and kids can do together.
Update: it was our reading ambassadors who decided they wished to try it and asked if we could do it. Our reading ambassadors are a group of 9-14 year olds who come together and discuss reading and literature and who share their joy of reading with their school mates and their friends. They were heavily involved in the planning of the Readathon and took great responsibility!
(This is now in the lectures but I wanted to share Marie’s words!)
I would have loved this as a kid. Kind of like experiencing the book “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” in the real world and a library instead of a museum.
@laurele, I LOVE that you brought up that reference!! I keep seeing it crop up in circulation at work but had never read it as a kid. It was, however, a beloved TV movie of mine filmed in the 70s, but they called it “The Hideaways.” Here it is on YouTube if you’re interested (really funny costumes, funky music and a cameo of Madeleine Kahn): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AC5JhVohSI
@lauraw They made a movie out of this? I had no idea!
@matilda, it’s a MUST watch!
I’m gonna find it!
Thanks so much for distracting me from my SJSU schoolwork! How did I also not know there was a TV movie of this classic book?? The music in the intro is enough to bring me straight back to my childhood.
@laurele A++ reference and I completely agree!
@michael This is a fantastic idea! Our local library sometimes does “teen lock-ins” at night where they play games and other organized activities and evidently have a lot of candy, but to my knowledge they’ve incorporated a read-a-thon component.
@matilda The lock in sounds like fun!
Wow, what fun it is to have a sleepover at a library. I love to play games, tell good stories, and read excellent books.
@francesmorovat Yay to stories and excellent books! 📚