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Children’s Writing Competition: Leeds Big Bookend
The Big Bookend are currently running a writing competition aimed at young writers in the city. They would like you to write a short story or poem about the First World War. If you are between 7 and 16...
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Top 10 – Children’s Fiction
Our new series of blog posts will feature Top 10s from Leeds Library Service. This week, as it is half term I thought I would start with our Top 10 Children’s fiction books borrowed this month. Mr...
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Librarian Top 10 – Sapphia’s Best Illustrated Books
The librarian top 10 this time comes from Sapphia, an assistant community librarian based at Moor Allerton Library. My favourite illustrated books. I am, due to my art school background, unfortunately...
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Librarian Top 10 – Books for Bedtime
This list come from Rachel, our children’s librarian based at Central Library. We read to our 18 month old daughter every night before bed. Some nights she’ll close the front cover after one page and...
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Keep them occupied!
The summer holidays are here! Time for kicking back and relaxing. Or, if you are a parent of children of a certain age, a six week quest to keep them occupied. Here in Leeds Libraries we have just...
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Librarian’s Choice – Absolutely judge these books by their cover
We all judge books by their covers but within this selection what appealed on the exterior is just a glimpse of the visual feast inside. It’s really refreshing to see children’s information books being...
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A Fantastically Great Children’s Book
It was a warm Friday evening as I ventured down to the Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley, for the book launch of ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World’ by Kate Pankhurst. As I entered the trendy...
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Storytime Advent
This lovely idea for enjoying reading with your little ones comes from Rachel, our children’s librarian based at Central library. Create your own storytime advent calendar this year, it’s easy and can...
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#whatsyourstory – Meet Kim
Full-time mum Kim Wood moved to Leeds seven years ago. With her husband working long hours and a new baby to look after, Kim felt isolated in a new area where she hardly knew anyone. She loved using...
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Librarian’s Choice: My favourite books for under 5s
This blog comes from Debbie, a Community Librarian in the east of Leeds. As anyone with small children will know, the Summer Holidays bring many challenges, including how to keep little ones...
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