WCN Book Club: Picture Book Evening

Bring along your favourite picture book for this special interactive reading and discussing Book Club. Having spent the first ten or fifteen minutes swapping each other’s picture books, we’ll discuss them, and discuss why we like (or hate) picture books. Do images express a thousand words? Can emotions be expressed better with pictures than words? Or do you find pictures ambivalent and inexact in a way that words aren’t? Come along, and we’ll explore picture books together.

The WCN Book Club provides a free, inclusive and welcoming environment for book lovers to come together and talk about books. We meet once a month for about an hour, – though sometimes conversation flows and we overrun! - to discuss a specific book, or books in general. Our tastes are
diverse; we seek to read world –class books from around the world, and we value exploring new genres, new authors, and new forms of writing.  

There’s no need to reserve your place, just bring along your copy of the book in question, get a drink or snack from Cafe Marzano if you want one, and settle into a comfy chair.  Complementary cake is sometimes provided. Discussion is relaxed and democratic and dissent is welcomed. We share our responses to the book in question. There are no right or wrong answers, no right or wrong ways of responding. Somewhere towards the end, we usually end up off topic, sharing some of the other books we’ve been reading or want to read.

Above all, the WCN Book Club believes in The Rights of the Reader– whatever you read, however you read it, you’re welcome to join us and we look forward to meeting you.

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Future WCN Book Club Meetings:

Enders' Game by Orson Scott Card on Tuesday 20th November.