On 15 December, the FSPs of our Naples Capodimonte Book Center held their first parents-children meeting for budding readers, in which both big and little participants played starring roles.
The children, led by their teacher, welcomed their parents at the entrance to the book center, singing and dancing to a song inviting adults to drop into book shops throughout the world to explore the world of reading.
After a visit to the community chapel to recite a short prayer, the children and their parents trooped into the book center, where the sisters showed them how the area was divided into departments according to the content of the texts. Afterward, the group moved to the adjoining conference room for a reading workshop, in which each adult read aloud a few excerpts from a book he/she had chosen. The encounter concluded in the sisters’ dining room, with everyone feasting on a giant chocolate cake in the shape of a book. All the participants, big and small, said that they had had a wonderful time and asked if the event could be repeated in the future.