One Dublin One Book 2025: Dublin, written in our hearts
11 March 2025
One Dublin One Book aims to encourage everyone in Dublin to read a book connected with the capital city during the month of April every year. This annual project is a Dublin City Council initiative, led by Dublin City Libraries and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, which encourages reading for pleasure.
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.
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 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.