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Ireland Reads is a campaign to get the whole country reading during February in the lead up to a national day of reading on Saturday, February 22.

2025 is the Year of the Snake – symbolising wisdom, transformation and resilience – and the East Asian community in Dublin will come together to celebrate from January 25 until February 2.

Social stories explain social situations to autistic children and help them learn ways of behaving in these situations. These stories are sometimes called social scripts, social narratives or story-based interventions.

The Bed that went Whoosh and Saved Santa, a supplement included in the Guinness magazine The Harp of December 1966.

Family events and activities take place in all libraries during the month of December to support the involvement of the whole family in children’s reading.

The section’s main aim is to go out into the community and let people know about all the amazing things available in their library, both in branch and online.

Going to school for the first time is a big milestone in a child's life. It's an exciting, yet somewhat nervous time for the whole family. We have put together a list of some of our favourite 'Going to School' books, which we hope will help your family navigate this new experience. All books are available to borrow or reserve in your local library.

To use a library resource, and to use it from home, you may need your library card and password.

Tá na léirmheasanna leabhair seo do léitheoirí óga scríofa ag John ón Lár Leabharlann. Bhain John sásamh as na scéalta breátha Gaeilge seo le déanaí.

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.