Waterstones Children’s Laureate Visits Bridgend

September 11, 2023

It was great to welcome Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho to Bridgend Library last week. The award-winning performance poet, playwright and children’s author is on an epic cross-country journey to join a library in every local authority in the UK – more than 200 libraries in total. Pob lwc Joseph!

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