{"id":12925,"date":"2016-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/sms-orsogur-og-ratleikur\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:59:10","slug":"sms-clues-and-a-treasure-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/sms-orsogur-og-ratleikur\/","title":{"rendered":"SMS micro-stories and a treasure hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Library is taking an active part in the Children's Book and Film Festival, and there's plenty going on! All week, anyone who borrows children's books can take part in a prize draw where book prizes will be won. Passers-by are encouraged to take part in writing one big story together on wrapping paper in the children's section, and participation is also open for a text message short story competition. \u00a0On Tuesday, there will be a treasure hunt around the library from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., and on Wednesday, there will be a book bingo in the multipurpose room at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Poems of young people.<\/b> A national poetry writing competition for pupils in Years 4-10. Pupils submit their poems to the school library or online via the library's website. For more information, please see your school's library!<\/li>\n<li><b>SMS flash fiction competition. <\/b>The theme of the competition is \u201e<i>reading<\/i>\u201c35-word micro-story sent to #6960035 by 21 February at the latest. Good prizes for 1st-3rd place.<\/li>\n<li><b>Lending game.<\/b> Parents of children in nursery and primary school receive a discount on a new library card. Annual fee is 1,000 kr. instead of 1,900 kr. Parents are role models for their children when it comes to reading. The names of everyone who borrows a children's book or books during this period will be entered into a prize draw. A name will be drawn, and some lucky readers will receive a book prize.<\/li>\n<li><b>Let's write a story together.<\/b> A story written with your participation on wrapping paper in the children's section of the library.<\/li>\n<li><b>Don't judge the book by the film. <\/b>An exhibition of books and the films based on them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, the library welcomes school groups from nurseries and primary schools for story time or a library tour. Bookings must be made with the library.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow on:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bokasafnhafnarfjardar\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Our Facebook page (Opens in a new browser tab)\" rel=\"noopener\">The library's Facebook page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur City Council website (Opens in a new browser tab)\" rel=\"noopener\">Homepage of the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1733271720235713\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Event Facebook page (Opens in a new browser tab)\" rel=\"noopener\">The event's Facebook page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B\u00f3kasafn &nbsp;Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar tekur virkan \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed B\u00f3ka- og b\u00ed\u00f3h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0 barnanna og er n\u00f3g um a\u00f0 vera! Alla vikuna geta \u00feeir sem f\u00e1 l\u00e1na\u00f0ar barnab\u00e6kur teki\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed \u00fatl\u00e1naleik \u00fear sem dregin ver\u00f0a \u00fat b\u00f3kaver\u00f0laun. Gestir og gangandi eru hvattir til a\u00f0 taka \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed a\u00f0 semja eina st\u00f3ra s\u00f6gu saman \u00e1 umb\u00fa\u00f0apapp\u00edr \u00e1 barnadeildinni auk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}