Summer Reading Challenge - Story Garden!
This year's Summer Reading Challenge starts on 5 July and ends on 13 September.
Open to all primary school aged children, it’s free and fun.
Read any books you like (yes we really mean any books) and collect stickers and rewards.
This year’s theme is Story Garden! The 2025 Summer Reading Challenge celebrates adventure, fantasy and storytelling through nature and the great outdoors. We’ll be inspiring children to tap into a world of imagination through reading.
Join at your local library during staffed hours and pick up your free activity bag.
Address: St Mary Street, Thornbury, BS35 2AA
Phone: 01454 868006
Fax: 01454 865657
Email:
Website: www.southglos.gov.uk/libraries or www.librarieswest.org.uk
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@southgloslibs
Photos kindly supplied by RichMcD Photography.
2025's Summer Reading Challenge starts on 5 July and ends on 13 September.
Open to all primary school aged children, it’s free and fun.
Read any books you like (yes we really mean any books) and collect stickers and rewards.
This year’s theme is Story Garden! The 2025 Summer Reading Challenge celebrates adventure, fantasy and storytelling through nature and the great outdoors. We’ll be inspiring children to tap into a world of imagination through reading.
Join at your local library during staffed hours and pick up your free activity bag.
Keeping warm and well:
Come and relax with a free warm drink in the library, available Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri 9.30am-4pm.
Use the computers or use your own iPad, phone etc. (wifi available), read a book, a newspaper, browse the shelves, enjoy a communal puzzle or just relax.
Ukrainian Storytime:
Please tell your Ukrainian family, friends, and colleagues, about Zoya, a Ukrainian teacher, who will be in the library every Monday at 4pm to share stories, reading, etc, from the Ukraine
“Have You Read…?”
Come and enjoy an open book group with a difference. No set novel to read. Just drop in for an hour on the first Friday of every month 2pm-3pm.
Rhymetime:
Rhymes and songs for parents and babies/toddlers to enjoy together, every Monday and Friday 9.30am-10am.
Pop in or email to book a family space.
Lego Club:
Listen to a story or some poems, then create your own LEGO masterpieces and display them in the library for your family and friends to see.
Every Saturday 9.30am, no booking required.
Free Computer Support 1-1:
Book a session with our computer volunteer for IT and digital support every Thursday 10am, 11am or 12noon.
Pop in or email to book a space.
Community Learning Drop-in Sessions:
Your community learning development worker will be at Thornbury Library 9.30-11.30am on Thursdays to share information on a wide range of courses for Wellbeing, Employability, English, Maths, ESOL and IT offered by South Gloucestershire Council. Drop to find out more information, get advice and enrol on a course. Please bring with you photo ID with date-of-birth and proof of address, plus your National Insurance number. Also, proof of eligibility to access education if you have not been resident in the UK for the past 3 years. We may ask you to complete an assessment, which will help your tutor to help you. Click here or email to find out more.
Click here to see more events.
If you register your card for our new Open Access System, and attend an induction, you’ll be able to access library facilities any day throughout the week.
You can borrow and return books and use the computers.
Please speak to a member of staff for more details.
Do you, or anyone you know, find it difficult to get to the library for books? If the answer is yes, please contact us to ask about our Home Library Service
as we have volunteers happy to help.
Our free online library is always open 24/7: eBooks, eAudiobooks, eComics, digital magazines and newspapers continue to be available for library members to download anytime - www.southglos.gov.uk/eresources has all the details.
It now also includes Who Else Writes Like?, and for children, Who Next? where you can find authors who write in a similar way to those you have already enjoyed reading. Simply log in with your library card number and select South Gloucestershire.
If you are not already a library member you can join online at bit.ly/joinLW - membership is free. You will receive an Online Membership number which will work for our digital services right away. Please enter an email address when you register for greater control of your account.
