After the doors of the Offenbach Children's Library closed at 5 p.m. on Friday, February 14, 15 children between the ages of five and seven and their accompanying adults were told for the very first time: "Lights out, flashlight on!". In the dark, the children used the flashlights to find a comfortable place to sit in front of the Kamishibai theater. This is a storytelling theater in which picture cards are shown in a wooden frame and a picture story is told or read aloud.
In keeping with the darkness, the children listened to the story "The Little Ghost - Tohuwabohu at Eulenstein Castle" by Otfried Preußler. Afterwards, there was plenty of time to browse, read or look at books either alone or together with mom or dad - but all by the light of the flashlights.
And because it's not so easy to do handicrafts in the dark, anyone who wanted to was allowed to take a small craft activity home with them at the end.
The flashlight reading was so popular that the children's library team is planning more events of this kind after the summer vacations.