🐟What better topic to cool down this week with than Under The Sea? 🪼Plus, it's #NationalMarineWeek2024 too where we celebrates all things oceanic 🌊We've still boxes for Autumn for KS1 and KS2 so be sure to get your orders in! Caryl Hart, Children’s Author Bethan Woollvin

Another exciting day for our librarians as we begin to prepare for our Autumn deliveries by sorting out our amazing storybags 👝📚 Want to get your hands on one? You've still got time to order so be sure to get your order in soon! Child Friendly Leeds Leeds for Learning Leeds Libraries

🚛After a long morning finalising our Autumn van routes, our friends Peters delivered us some new fiction that we can't wait to get stuck into! 📚 Leeds Libraries Child Friendly Leeds Leeds for Learning Dr Liz Flanagan Clare Povey MIND & ME - Going to Bat 🏏✨ OUT NOW! Pamela Butchart

Find our ‘Don’t Hate, Educate’ recommended reads in the #ReadforEmpathy collection. The world's leading authors & illustrators have created these powerful titles to educate, inform and enrich the lives of children and young people. ‼️CONT. IN THREAD

Yesterday we welcomed the lovely Mary Harland 🤍💛💙 to SLS to introduce the service and the vital work we do around Leeds' schools! Thank you so much for visiting us (and wishing you a very happy birthday too🎂) Leeds Libraries Child Friendly Leeds Leeds for Learning

It was an absolute pleasure. Blown away by your passion for this excellent service. Great work across the city!

We're so excited about the #Paralympics starting next week! There are lots of great books which explore disability in an authentic and positive way - you can find some we love here, but let us know which titles you'd recommend! booktrust.org.uk/booklists/b/bo… Pic: Ananya Rao-Middleton

Deliveries are on the horizon once again so we are getting our fiction boxes ready for their new Autumn homes 🚛📚☁️ There's still time to get your orders in to guarantee delivery so be sure to get them in 🌟now🌟 Leeds Libraries Leeds for Learning Child Friendly Leeds

Nice to see the great Richard O'Neill speaking here about the vast appeal of Northern stories 📚

#BBC500Words opens in September! And there's no need to fear the blank page: every two weeks we'll have fresh writing prompts to get those minds ticking! Prompt one is inspired by Bethan Woollvin take on Hansel and Gretel Leeds Libraries Child Friendly Leeds Leeds for Learning BBC Teach

The bank holiday is sadly over😭 -but we can't be blue for too long as a load of beautiful, new non-fiction has been delivered to us just in time for Autumn term 📚😄 Leeds Libraries Child Friendly Leeds Leeds for Learning Peters Chaaya

📚🗓️ My #MonthlyMustReads for August 2024: 🌟 Dream Hunters Nazima Pathan #FedericaFrenna (FBoTM) 🌟 Journey to Poo-topia James Turner Steve May (NFBoTM) ⭐️ The Beanstalk Murder P.G. Bell ⭐️ The Boy Who Cried Ghost Ian Eagleton 🌟 The Bridges Tom Percival

The holidays may be over but there's no need to be sad: new reading resources being delivered from SLS this week! Plus, we've got some surprises... but that'll have to wait 'til later 😉 Leeds Libraries @child_leeds @leeds_learning Mary Harland 🤍💛💙 Dan Barton @leedscc_news

You're invited: to our 50th birthday🎂 We'll be celebrating with good company, lots of cake, and of course, great books So 'fill your boits' and karaoke starts in an hour🎤 Leeds Libraries Child Friendly Leeds Leeds for Learning Mary Harland 🤍💛💙 Cllr Helen Hayden Dan Barton Leeds Council News

For our 50th, we've decided to treat ourselves to a brand new Facebook🎉 To join in with all the fun, be sure to follow SLS here: rb.gy/hiu1ch #ReadingForPleasure Leeds Libraries Child Friendly Leeds Leeds for Learning Mary Harland 🤍💛💙 Dan Barton Cllr Helen Hayden Julie Longworth

Humble origins to now- In 1974, schools were allowed 6 loans PER YEAR! Now we loan termly and serve 174 Leeds schools. In 23/24, we loaned 10k boxes which is roughly 195 thousand reading resources! Leeds Libraries @child_leeds @leeds_learning Dan Barton Mary Harland 🤍💛💙

Writing stops for no one – including 50th birthdays! Today we have a special #500Words prompt from the oldest book in our Class Readers collection: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis Leeds Libraries @child_leeds @leeds_learning BBC Teach

🌟Meet The Team 🌟 We're more than a bunch of blue boxes so welcome to our special #LeedsSLSat50 intro to the team! Up first is Charlene, the life of a party whether it's a Monday or Friday 🎉🪩 Leeds Libraries Leeds for Learning Child Friendly Leeds

We've had a lovely message for our 50th birthday from the amazing James Nicol that gave us a case of the wobbly chin😭🎂 The full video can be found on our Facebook page: tinyurl.com/2bpfdpsu Leeds Libraries Child Friendly Leeds Leeds for Learning Mary Harland 🤍💛💙 Dan Barton

Some of our lovey author friends have sent us some birthday messages to congratulate us🎉 Starting off is the brill Richard O'Neill who started off our wonderful #WorldBookDay celebrations earlier this year too 📚 Leeds Libraries Child Friendly Leeds Leeds Libraries