Doncaster Stories – FREE Roald Dahl Books for Mumblers!

Doncaster Stories is a brand new community-driven campaign to boost literacy levels in our town over the next ten years.

My Mini Mumblers and I love reading and we love Roald Dahl. My 5 year old and I are reading Charlie and The Chocolate Factory at the moment, so I jumped at the chance of getting involved in this campaign, especially as it involves Golden Tokens!!

The campaign launched in October 2019 and Doncaster Stories gifted over 7,500 Roald Dahl books to primary school children in Doncaster in one day.* They also arranged drama workshops and the children bought stories to life acting out scenes from books and transforming themselves in to Roald Dahl’s famous characters!

The Golden Token scheme

Hundreds of physical tokens have been hidden around Doncaster and can be exchanged at any of the participating libraries for a FREE Roald Dahl book…rumour has it that they can be found in Family Hubs, local health services…and if you look closely enough you’ll now be able to find some special Mumbler tokens here on the Doncaster Mumbler website! 

Doncaster Stories have designed a very special Mumbler version of the token (how exciting!) and there are a couple of links in areas of the Doncaster Mumbler website where you can download the token…but you have to search for it! Once you find the token, download and print it out and take it along to one of these libraries in Doncaster to get your free book:

• Intake Community Library, Montrose Ave, Doncaster DN2 6PL , open Monday-Saturday 10am-1pm
• Mexborough Library, John St, Mexborough, Doncaster S64 9HS, open Monday-Friday 8.40am – 5pm & Saturdays 8.40pm – 1pm
• Central Library, Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3JE, open Monday & Tuesday 9am – 6pm, Thursday 9am – 7pm, and Saturday 9.30am – 5pm
• Balby Community Library, High Rd, Doncaster DN4 0PL, open Monday, Wednesday & Friday 10am – 5pm, and Saturday 10am – 1pm
• Woodlands Community Library, Windmill Balk Ln, Woodlands, Doncaster DN6 7SB, open Monday – Tuesday & Thursday – Friday 9am – 2.30pm, Wednesday 11am – 2.30pm, and Saturday 10am – 12.00pm
• Askern Community Library, Station Rd, Askern, Doncaster DN6 0LA, open Monday – Thursday 10am – 4.00pm, Friday 10am – 1pm, and Saturday 10am – 1pm
• Conisbrough Comunity Library, Old Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster DN12 3ND, Monday 10am-4pm, Tuesday & Saturday 10am- 1pm, Wednesday 9am – 5pm, and Saturday 10am – 1pm

Clue: Look out for some quotes from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory anywhere on the Mumbler website! 

So far 500 tokens have been redeemed and you’ve got until Saturday 23rd November to claim your FREE book, so get hunting! Good Luck!

You can read more about Doncaster Stories here.

*Books donated by Penguin Random House