My Little Library Bags
Published on 17th June 2024
Pictured - Dublin City Librarian, Mairead Owens and Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, T.D.
My Little Library Bags for children starting school in September
To help children to navigate starting school, libraries have put together a ‘My Little Library Book Bag’, available for free for every child starting school in 2024 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.
Each My Little Library Book Bag contains:
- One book about either starting school, making friends or being comfortable to be yourself
- A library membership form.
- Library card wallet
Book bags are available in both Irish and English.
Libraries can’t wait to welcome all the 4 and 5 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.
