FAMILIES have a last chance to see a pioneering puppet play celebrating books, reading and libraries.

Monstro Theatre are staging Book Story at The City Theatre in Durham, with two final performances on Saturday at 1.15pm and 3pm.

Performers use songs, puppetry and dynamic performance to tell the story of the story in the digital age.

Aimed at children and families, the play is set in a library, a magical place where the books like to flutter their pages.

With singing books and shimmying librarians, it's a production that's funny, surreal, touching and completely unpredictable.

Writer and director Ben Glasstone said: “This is a notion I’d had maybe ten years ago when sitting in a library and staring at a shelf of oversize books, thrown haphazardly together on a shelf.

“These books look like odd shelf-fellows. Why are they sitting next to each other on a shelf? Who put them there? How do they feel about it?

“Some years later, looking for an idea for a kids’ show for my theatre company I decided to pursue these questions further.

“Once you start to think about books as characters, you notice a lot of compelling analogies between people and books”.

Admission is £6.50 per person.