'You should read more!' Muscat tells kids
Labour leader Joseph Muscat mobbed by Qormi children and parents during visit to playground Book Box.
18 February 2013, 12:00am
Nestor Laiviera
Nestor Laiviera
1 min read
Labour leader Joseph Muscat flanked by Qormi Mayor Rosianne Cutajar and several other Labour candidates.
On Monday evening,Labour leader Joseph Muscat was mobbed by children and parents during a visit to a playground in Qormi (Ġnien Federico Maempel) where the local council erected a book box for local children.
Muscat posed for pictures, signed flags and copies of his biography, and shook countless hands as both children and parents crowded round to get a few seconds with the party leader.
When Muscat was finally able to wade through the crowd to reach the Book Box, the labour leader urged children and parents alike to read more, and 'presented' the Book Box with a donation of storybooks.
As Muscat worked his way through the crowd, the children frequently broke out in cries of "Taghna Lkoll", and other Labour chants.
Luke Camilleri •
What an excellent initiative - it is truly the way forward !
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— Frederick Douglass
"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I [haven't] read."
— Abraham Lincoln
"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall."
— Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
