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Newsletter Edition: June 2024
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We're so excited to be able to share Library Adventures, our new year-round reading for pleasure programme for children aged 4-11, with you soon!
You'll be able to see our fabulous artwork appearing in libraries across Kirklees this month. Which of the 6 exciting themes will your local library be starting with? It could be Animal Planet, Space Explorer, Oceans, Rainforest, Spooky or Magical Lands. These are all interests chosen by local children and you will be able to enjoy every theme across the year at your local library.
We've been busily creating extra content for the free Adventurer Packs. They'll be arriving in July so you'll be able to start your reading journey any time from then onwards. Remember it's a year-round journey, so if you've got a really busy summer planned, don't worry, you'll be able to explore, discover, create and read in the colder months too!
Have a peak at our fantastic new booklist for the Rainforest theme. It links to our catalogue so you can reserve your top picks for free and collect them from your local library.
 Are you game for a friendly chess match or two? Then come along to Chess Club at Huddersfield Library! We host friendly and informal games every Saturday afternoon, 2-4pm. All abilities, age 8 and over, are welcome.
NEW: Huddersfield Library Chess Club proudly presents ‘The Tuition Table’.
- Learn the basic moves
- Learn chess notation
- Learn a specific technique
Saturday 8th June — Discovered Attacks
Saturday 15th June—Forks
Saturday 22nd June — Remove the Defender
Saturday 29th June—Pins and Skewers
1 to 1 tuition slots are available at 1.30pm and 2pm. Booking is essential. To book, email HudLibChess@kirklees.gov.uk or enquire with Luke or Chris during club hours (Every Saturday, 2-4pm).
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 June is Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month. Through celebration, education and raising awareness, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month helps to tackle prejudice, change the story, and amplify the voices of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in wider society. Here's a wonderful library display of information, resources and people created by Louise at Holmfirth Library.
Find a booklist and discover more about Gypsy, Roma and Traveller representation in children's books on the Books for Keeps website.
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 The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2024 (the Lollies) celebrates the best and funniest children’s books in the UK and Ireland, voted for by children. If you love to laugh, you’ll love the Lollies! They’re a book award searching for the very funniest children’s books published in the previous year.
What's the funniest library book you've read this year? Find out if it's made the Lollies shortlists and vote for your favourites here.
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 Get creative and build exciting things with Lego at our fun and free family sessions. We have Lego clubs in lots of libraries. Drop in to Dewsbury Library on Saturdays between 11 and 1.45 or join the play at Kirkheaton Library on Fridays between 3.30 and 4.30 where there's a cafe for parents too!
Discover your nearest on our Creative Kirklees page.
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 If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under four, you may be entitled to get extra help to buy healthy food and infant formula. You could receive from £4.25 to £8.50 per week. In addition, you will be eligible to collect free maternal and child vitamin supplements.
For further information on eligibility criteria and how to apply, visit: https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/how-to-apply/
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 Books can be powerful tools to help us understand the world. For thousands of years, stories have been our way of making sense of the world and our place in it. They help us better understand other people, and ourselves too.
Books by and about refugees can help us see the refugee experience through the eyes of individual people, rather than just as a faceless mass as often depicted in the media. By telling personal stories books can help us understand the human impact of forced migration and displacement. All of which can help us grow our compassion and inspire us to take action.
Love Reading 4 Kids has compiled an excellent collection of books which appeal to a wide range of ages and are perfect to help initiate a discussion as a family to explore what it really means to escape your home and seek refuge elsewhere.
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 HiVis is the annual celebration of accessible library services. It's a chance for all libraries to highlight and talk about all that we do to help people with vision and / or print impairments. Thank you to Aalyah at Dewsbury for creating this awesome display of our resources and accessible reading formats.
Find out more about accessible reading on the Reading Sight website.
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 Borrow eAudio / eBooks
We have over 29,000 eAudio and eBook titles. Borrow them for free with your Kirklees library card and pin.
View the collection along with details of how to download and use the Libby app at: Libby - Library (libbyapp.com)
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 PressReader: Digital magazines and Newspapers
Our digital magazine and newspaper service can now be accessed from within the Libby app. Select the Pressreader icon from within Libby and follow the on-screen instructions.
Our collection of over 7,300 national and international titles available to read online or download includes magazines and newspapers written for children!
You have complimentary access with your Kirklees library card and PIN for 30 days before you have to sign in again. For more details, along with details of the text-to-speech and instant translation options, see our PressReader catalogue at: www.pressreader.com
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Our Opening Times and Social Stories
The addresses and opening times of all our libraries can be found on our website at: Locations and opening times | Kirklees Council
We also have Social Stories for each library, which let you have a visual tour of the different buildings before visiting. These Social Stories are ideal for neurodiverse people or to support young people with feelings of anxiety and can be found in the opening times section for each library, under the "We are going to..." heading at the top.
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