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 Newsletter Edition: November 2025
Contents:
- New Library Adventures Activity Pack available
- Reading Dens Competition
- Brix & Blox Lego challenges
- Non-fiction November
- Great Books Guide from BookTrust
- National Year of Reading
- World Nursery Rhyme Week
- Library App
- Christmas in Kirklees
- Michael Rosen Day poetry competition
- Ebooks, audio books, magazines, newspapers and puzzles
- Library locations, opening hours and social stories
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 🎉 Library Adventures Are Back!
Your next Activity Pack has landed at your local library—and it’s packed with wild challenges, cool crafts, and awesome book ideas to spark your imagination!
🔥 What’s inside?
Spooky stuff 👻, True or Poo? 💩, Odd Socks Day 🧦, Superhero Me 🦸, Festival Fun 🎪, Battle Cards 💥, Brix & Blox 🧱… and loads more!
📚 What’s Library Adventures?
It’s a free, all-year reading funfest for kids aged 4–11. Read a book or do an activity (at home or in the library) and earn stickers as you go!
📍 How to join the fun:
Just pop into any Kirklees Library, grab your free Library Adventures pack, and start exploring. All you need is a library card—get one online or in person, no ID needed!
Find out more on our Library Adventures page.
 Reading Dens
Finding the perfect spot to settle down with a great book is wonderful! We'd like you to create your very own extra special spot. Armed with some very simple bits and pieces (and your imagination) you will soon have somewhere custom-built for your reading adventure.
We have two fantastic book bundles to give away to the lucky winners of our reading den competition. Just send us a photo of your fabulous reading den to lal@kirklees.gov.uk, let us know if you'd like to win the bundle for age 4-7/ age 7-11 and which library you'd like to collect it from by Friday 28th November.
Look at our Reading Dens page in the latest Library Adventures activity pack for inspiration!
 Brix and Blox
Up for a challenge? The children at our library Lego clubs have been inspired by our Library Adventures activity pack to get busy building! If you've built something extraordinary, we'd love to feature it on our Brix & Blox page. We will be picking three fantastic builds to star on the page each time and their creators will win a brilliant book each. Submit a photo of your creation to lal@kirklees.gov.uk and don't forget to include your name and age.
There are free Lego clubs in many of our libraries. Find out what's going on in a library near you on the Creative Kirklees website.
 Non-fiction November
Children and young people who read non-fiction were motivated to read for educational purposes, to satisfy curiosities, to foster social connections and to support their mental wellbeing (National Literacy Trust).
We're celebrating the joy and value of factual reading for young readers in all our libraries this November - and all year round. This year, the theme is ‘Past Puzzles and Timeless Treasures’, which invites pupils to explore history, archaeology, legends and the evolution of places and objects over time.
Celebrate with us by dropping into your local library to choose an irresistible information book or download a non-fiction ebook or factual audio book for free with the Libby app. Don't forget to complete the non-fiction November library trail and work out if the "facts" in the Library Adventures booklet are True or Poo!
Find out more about non-fiction November on the National Literacy Trust's website or explore the recommended titles from Books for Topics.
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 Great Books Guide
The brilliant team at BookTrust have created a marvellous list of 100 books from 2025–26 that we think are great – and so will children! Like BookTrust, we love to get children excited about books, stories and rhymes because if reading is fun, children will want to do it. That’s why we want to share their guide full of books that are absolutely brilliant, carefully chosen to engage and excite children from 4 to 11. We believe that the ‘right’ book is always the book a child wants to read – and we hope this guide inspires you to find that book in one of our libraries.
Explore the booklists and enter the competition to win all 100 books for your school on the BookTrust website.
 National Year of Reading 2026 - GO ALL IN
Everyone knows the benefits of reading: it expands your world, sharpens your mind. It might even make you more creative or successful. But increasingly, fewer of us are making time to read. With so many forms of entertainment at our fingertips, reaching for a book can feel like a chore. Something we should do, but don’t really want to do.
We're partnering with the National Year of Reading in 2026, bringing reading to where culture is. We believe reading is a powerful plug-in to the things you already love – a great way to go deeper into your existing passions. Put simply we say: ‘if you’re into it, read into it’.
The nation is being asked to Go All in and see how reading in all its forms can unlock more of what you love – whether it’s music, baking, family time, films, sci-fi or… anything.
Whatever you're into.
Get ready to GO ALL IN.
Watch the inspiring video and find out more on the GO ALL IN webpage.
 World Nursery Rhyme Week: 10th - 14th November 2025
Nursery rhymes aren’t just catchy tunes—they’re little learning powerhouses! 🎶 From “Twinkle Twinkle” to “The Wheels on the Bus,” these playful songs help kids soak up new words, build their language skills, and get a head start on reading. They even sneak in some early math magic with counting and rhythm. Plus, singing and moving along helps little ones grow socially, emotionally, and physically. Who knew so much brain-boosting could come from a simple rhyme?
We're celebrating World Nursery Rhyme week in our library storytimes and rhymetimes. Come along, join in, and collect your free Pocketful of Rhymes booklet.
Find the full list of library storytimes and rhymetimes on the Creative Kirklees website.
Find out more about how to get involved on the World Nursery Rhyme Week website.
 Library App
Kirklees Libraries are now at your fingertips, wherever you are! Thanks to the support from LibraryOn and Arts Council England, you can now download our FREE mobile app and enjoy 24/7 access to your library.
With the app, you can:
• Search for books (including eBooks & audiobooks)
• Download eBooks & audiobooks directly
• Reserve, renew & manage your account
• Use a digital library card
• Scan book barcodes to check availability
Download the free app today and take Kirklees Libraries with you wherever you go.
This year, there are two big Christmas events in Huddersfield and Dewsbury! Our two biggest town centres will be brought to life with light shows, live performances and Christmas markets, marking the run-up to Christmas with a bit of festive magic and fun for all the family. And best of all, everything’s completely free!
Christmas in Huddersfield will take place on Saturday 29 November, and Christmas in Dewsbury will take place the following weekend on Saturday 6 December.
Find out more on the Kirklees Together page.
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Playing with Words
A funny food poetry competition
"Food is funny. Food is funny when it's too horrible, too nice or too much. It's funny when someone makes a noise eating it, or when people eat food in bed. Food is funny when people talk about food and when they complain about food. So, let's write about food, what it looks like, what it tastes like, what we look like when we eat it, what people say about food! Let's write poems we can eat!" MICHAEL ROSEN
Inspired by Michael Rosen’s brilliant poem "Hot Food: Nice!", Walker Books are challenging you to write your own funny food poem. Whether it’s about spine-tingling spaghetti, carrots from outer space or monsters who eat marmalade, your poem just needs to do two things: 1. Be creative and 2. Be funny!
Find out more on the Michael Rosen Day website from Walker Books.
 Borrow eAudio / eBooks - and now magazines!
Digital editions of over 5,000 magazine titles are now available via Kirklees Libraries and Libby app. Magazines are always available with no waiting lists, no loan limits and no due dates. Subscribe to a title to be notified when new issues come out.
We also 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 via our Overdrive page at: kirklees.overdrive.com
Our collection of national and international titles available to read online or download includes The Football League Paper and the Rugby Paper, ideal for sport-obsessed children to get their reading for pleasure hit!
New to Pressreader are 10 interactive puzzle types:
1. Codeword
2. Concise Crosswords
3. Cryptic Crossword
4. Make Tracks
5. Nought and Crosses
6. Pathfinder
7. Sudoku (3 difficulty levels)
8. Wordsearch
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: http://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 people with Autism or 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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Linktree
Use our Linktree address to stay up to date with Kirklees Libraries and for easy access to our resources and services. linktr.ee/kirkleeslibraries
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