 Join us for free, fun family craft sessions in some of our libraries this half term.
Monday 17th February, Lindley Library, 10.15-11.15 or 11.45-12.45
Wednesday 19th February, Birkby & Fartown Library, 1-3
Thursday 20th February, Rawthorpe & Dalton Library, 10-11 or 11.30-12.30
To book, please email keeley.loney@kirklees.gov.uk or call/text 07816937331. Limited places available.
 Browse our collection of feel good books chosen by health professionals, librarians, families and children aimed at helping children to understand their thoughts, feelings and the world around them Reading Well for Children
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Join us for a free after-school craft activity at Holmfirth Library on Thursday 6th February, 3.45-4.45pm. We will be making worry monsters and chatterboxes with Kirklees Keep in Mind supporting Children's Mental Health Week 2025. Suitable for ages 4+. |
 Have you tried the hugely successful, action-packed Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam series yet? Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two baker-dogs who used to be robbers, but now solve mysteries and sniff out crimes! They're ideal for children growing in confidence as readers and beginning to read alone. Why not borrow one from the library?
If you feel inspired to have a go at some crime prevention yourself, have a look at Easy Street, the West Yorkshire Police burglary advice campaign.
The campaign has been developed to encourage you to think about two things :
- What makes it inviting for criminals to target certain properties and streets
- The importance of reviewing your own home security
Follow the checklist on the Easy Street page.
 We're bouncing up and down in anticipation for World Book Day 2025 on Thursday 6th March. This year's theme is Read Your Way, celebrating the reading that your child chooses to do in their free time without judgement. Read Your Way encourages everyone to let go of reading pressures and expectations, and lets children find fun in reading.
We love this creative competition from our friends at World Book Day. Children 11 years old and younger are invited to create their very own space creature with a sentence describing what could be a magnificent, scary or gruesome space creature!
The lucky winner will win an original signed illustration of their creature by renowned comic book artist Will Sliney and a signed copy of his new activity book, Draw with Will! The three runners up will receive one signed copy of Draw with Will by Will Sliney each.
Find out more on the World Book Day competition page
 This month we're celebrating our favourite poet, Matt Goodfellow, the best-selling and prizewinning author of the wonderful verse novel The Final Year. The book is a powerful and lyrical story about finding your place in the world and the people that matter within it.
Matt writes for all ages of children. Our youngest readers love the read-aloud poems in Caterpillar Cake while those aged 10+ will be captivated by the way he balances emotion with humour in Let's Chase Stars Together. Find out more about all of Matt Goodfellow's books on his website then borrow your choice from us.
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Most popular paper books
Our favourite tech genius, Kev the Librarian, has been interrogating the catalogue to discover our most popular print titles of 2024. The most borrowed junior fiction book was Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney and the most popular junior non-fiction was Dinosaurs by Joanna Brundle (for the second year running!). Want to see why? Reserve a copy on our catalogue.
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eAudio - Children
A selection of our most popular childrens' titles. Follow the link below or select a row of books to browse our collections.
eBooks - Children
eAudio - Young Adult
A selection of our most popular titles for our older younger, younger older readers. Follow the link below or select a row of books to browse our collections.
eBooks - Young Adult
Download the Libby app and choose from over 22,000 eBook titles and 4,000 audiobooks from our Kirklees Libraries collection: https://libbyapp.com/
 HuddLitFest is an annual Festival with community, accessibility and inclusivity at its heart. We've been busy booking tickets for this fab celebration of books and authors, poetry and performance – in venues and online. We're super excited about this Grandad Wheels event at Birkby Library:
Grandad Wheels – storytelling & drawing activity
Saturday 17 May, 12pm-1pm, Birkby Library, Lea Street HD1 6HF
Free (booking advised)
Age guidance: 5-10 years (U16s should be accompanied by an adult)
A free fun storytelling session for primary school age children with inspirational author Brian Abram, AKA Grandad Wheels. Grandad Wheels will chat about his life as a wheelchair user then read one of his stories, with audience participation and a question-and-answer session. Children will then be guided in a drawing activity to design a futuristic wheelchair. There will be 40 free copies of Grandad Wheels’ books to be given out to the children attending.
Find out more and book free tickets for Grandad Wheels
See all the events coming up with HuddLitFest
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