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Design a Future Library Competition
This competition is now closed, but we will be launching another soon! This year B&NES is celebrating one hundred years of public libraries in Bath, but what will libraries of the future look like? In the next one hundred years how will libraries change and develop? We want you to use your design and imagination…
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Baby Bounce and Rhyme Videos
Enjoy our Baby Bounce and Rhyme sessions at home with these videos! Sing a long to nursery rhymes and songs, with easy actions for under-5s to enjoy. Use the tabs to see all of the videos; Kat is the Bath Central Baby Bounce and Rhyme champ, Debbie performs Makaton while singing and Julia gets out…
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Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2, by Elena Favilli
Second volume of this ambitious project: to give to children stories about women who are heroes on their own. Beautifully illustrated, each page is the story of a different woman often from a different country. They can be spies, scientist, doctors, singers, aviators, … they all show courage, and ambition when and where the odds…
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Granny by Anthony Horowitz
A spooky tale from the great author Anthony Horowitz. Grannies are supposed to be nice and cuddly and give you loads of sweets but not Joe Warden’s. Joe lives in splendour in Thattlebee Hall and his distant parents are very rich but he rarely goes out and feels a bit like a prisoner. But this…
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Jess, aged 10, sent us this review: The book is about a boy called Harry Potter who is a wizard and goes to wizarding school called Hogwarts, he has 2 friends called Ron and Hermione. There is a dark arts wizard called Sirius Black and there were rumours that he killed Harry’s parents. But later…
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Mummy’s Suitcase by Pip Jones & Laura Hughes
As part of the picture books in the Children Area of Keynsham Library there is a section called Parachute Books – these are picture books that help young children get to grips with new experiences, fears and issues. Mummy’s Suitcase is a book to help when Mummy goes back to work. The story revolves around…
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Silverfin by Charlie Higson
A good book for any reluctant teenager who wants to read a story that is not about magic and wizards! The author has created a series of stories about the young James Bond. Silverfin is the first of the series and introduces the young James Bond – it begins with James starting at Eton and…
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The Guggenheim Mystery By Robin Stevens
This is the sequel to Siobhan Dowd’s The London Eye Mystery and continues the adventures of the very unique Ted Spark. Ted is never very good with change, so was very apprehensive in going to visit his Aunt Gloria and cousin Salim in New York. However Aunt Gloria works in the marvellous Guggenheim museum which…
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Colin’s Big Read
Help Colin the Corgi collect all the books in time for the street party in Colin’s Big Read Game! Click here to help Colin find all 70 of the Big Jubilee Read books across 7 levels and deliver them in time for the Jubilee Street Party! You’ll find 10 books on each level, all titles…
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Make a Candle in a Jar
Follow our video guide or read the instructions to make a candle in a jar! Clean out your jar and allow to dry. Attach the sticky tape to the base of the wick, then gently press to the inside base of the jar to stick it down. Fill your saucepan with two inches of water…