My Little Library Bags

My Little Library Bags for children starting school in September

To help children to navigate starting school, libraries have put together a bag of books just for them that can be collected at any library.

My Little Library Initiative. 

As part of the initiative, a ‘My Little Library Book Bag’ is available FREE for every child starting school in 2025 to help them to prepare for this big step. Children and their parents or guardians can collect the bags at any library throughout the country from Friday 9th May 2025.

Each My Little Library Book Bag contains:

• A book on starting school and a second book on making friends or being comfortable to be yourself.
• Their very own library card and special ‘My Little Library’ cardholder.
• A range of resources for parents/children to support the transition to primary school, including a copy of Rufus Handwashing Storybook.
• Book bags are available in both Irish and English.

Libraries can’t wait to welcome all the 4 to 6 year old children in to collect their book bags and begin their library membership journey.

We hope that once they visit the library to pick up their book bag, our new library members and their families will come back regularly to keep their bag filled up with borrowed books and to take part in storytimes, classes and all the other events we have to offer at the library.

The ‘My Little Library Book Bag’ initiative is a collaboration between libraries, the Department of Rural and Community Development, and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth as part of the First 5 Strategy.