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Radio Merseyside,8 mins

Thousands of free book to given away to children this Christmas

Paul Salt

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Based in Belle Vale Shopping Centre in Liverpool, The BIG Little Library by Gateacre School, is going to be giving away around 1,500 brand-new books as part of its annual Christmas ‘Book Flood’ event. They got the idea from an Icelandic tradition called Jolabokaflod where people give each other a book and a piece of chocolate on Christmas Eve. This will be their 5th book flood, since adopting the idea... Lisa Mitchell is Community Co-ordinator at Gateacre School.

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