On Friday, May 20, UK Ambassador to Armenia Charles Lonsdale will be reading passages from Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days" to school age children at the Khnko Aghper Library in Yerevan.

The event is part of a program called "Literature Night 2011" that will take place in 15 European cities that aims to present the best of contemporary European literature.

On May 21, British Consul Janice Little and Attaché Michael Drey will read for kids at the Cafesjian Art Center at noon.

The program is an initiative of the EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Cutlure) and is organized by the Czech Centres.