It was World Book Day last week and a chance for children around the island to dress up as their best-loved - and often scariest - characters from the favourite stories.

For author Lula Brown, age 10, from Scooill Phurt le Moirrey it was also a chance to show off her second book, ’Jeff and the Firefly’. As well as writing stories, Lula has raised many thousands of pounds for clean water around the world through her own charity, GushGush.

Children from Henry Bloom Noble School and the Beehive Nursery were among more than 150 who visited the Family Library over the course of the day.

Activities at the library covered a range of themes, from Julia Donaldson books, to ’People Who Help Us’, ’Reading Buddies’, ’Teddy Time’ and pre-school sessions about shapes, colours, numbers and phonics. All school children were invited to drop in to the library in their outfits after school too. Family Library staff were all in costume including Mobile Library driver, Graeme Jolly, who dressed up as ’Where’s Wally’ and drove around the island posting pictures on Facebook and asking people to guess where he was.

Executive director, Laura Jones, said: ’The library was full all day and it was wonderful to see the children developing a love of reading and sharing books together.’