A photo corner reading “Books are like parachutes” and a red reading armchair greet pupils in one of the school libraries of the Bucha community. On 30 September, Ukraine’s Library Day, Myrotske Gymnasium No. 12 and Syniak Lyceum No. 15 added new books to their collections, and pupils and teachers congratulated the school librarians.

This was reported by Bucha City Council.

What is new on the shelves

The council’s photo shows what company the young readers have gained. The youngest can look forward to Erwin Moser’s bedtime stories, “Mums and Babies” and “I Love You, Daddy”.

Those who already read on their own get dragon adventures: Andy Shepherd’s “The Boy Who Grew Dragons” and its sequel about living with dragons. Next to them are “The Adventures of the Many-Headed Dragon” and a children’s encyclopedia about the secrets of nature.

And “The Dreams of Patron the Dog” by Halyna Tkachuk has moved onto the shelf too, a book about the country’s most famous four-legged sapper. Pupils in Myrotske and Syniak can now take his story home with a library card.

More than a store of books

In wartime, when the enemy tries to destroy Ukrainian identity and disrupt schooling, a school library becomes much more than a room with shelves, the council stresses. Here children nurture the Ukrainian language, learn their own history and find comfort amid anxious days.

Pupils thanked the librarians for the special warmth that keeps drawing them back to reading. “Our culture lives in every word, and no attacks can stop the desire for knowledge,” the council concluded.

As a reminder, Bucha Lyceum No. 3 held an anti-bullying week.

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