Children's Services
Services for all Ages
Each library stocks an exciting range of titles for younger and older children. Details of special programmes, including Summer Reading Club, Storytime and 
Children's Book Festival activities are available from local branch libraries.
The collections and range of stock avaiable in main library locations is unique in its quality and educational value, and includes:
- Top authors, with brand new series and titles added regularly
- Extensive collection of picture books by top illustrators and authors
- Factual books that transform the quest for knowledge into fun
- Board books and materials for pre-readers
- All the recommended and most effective reading support programmes
- Dvd and Audio Book collections
- Internet access
- Summer Reading Club, Children's Book Festival, Author visits and more.
- Service is free of charge to children of all ages from toddler to teen.
Check the opening hours of your local branch library and start using all it has to offer every child today.
"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It's an enormous force for good". President Barack Obama
New for Summer 2009
Hundreds of new titles have been added during June, so watch out for new series and enticing tales during the summer including:
- Charm Hall
- Beano Books
- Zoey 101
- Usborne Young Reading
..as well as all your favourite authors like Judy Curtin, Anthony Horowitz and many, many more too countless to list! Remember to take part in this year's Reading Club challenge by completing a Summer Reading Journey, reading some of our new books along the way..
