U.K. Centre to Explore and Celebrate Children’s Books

Anonymous Patron writes From The Guardian Unlimited: The former children’s laureate Quentin Blake is wearing trainers and having 40 winks on colourful cushions in the book den at Seven Stories the £6.5m centre for children’s books converted from a Victorian grain store on the bank of the Ouseburn, just down river from the Tyne bridge in Newcastle.

The centre, which collects, explores and celebrates children’s books, will be opened on Friday by the current children’s laureate, Jacqueline Wilson, and illustrator Nick Sharratt.”