Courses and programmes in your area
Pre-school services and resources
Our experienced children’s librarians offer a variety of services and resources. Here are some guides and resources for helping pre-school children at different stages in their early learning.
Services
- Pre-school Outreach
- Our two outreach librarians can come to your centre or group — find out more about the services we offer.
- Books for Babies
- Introduce baby to books, stories and libraries as early as you can with our Books for Babies scheme.
Resources to encourage young readers
- Great books to read together
- Suggestions for great books to read to your kids and for new readers to try for themselves.
- Action rhymes for baby
- Can't make it to BabyTimes this week — why not try it at home? Here are some of our favourite action rhymes to use at home.
- Get ready for reading
- Activities to help develop the skills that lead to reading.
- Build literacy skills at home
- Tips for supporting your child's reading development.
- Children’s picture books that teach mathematics concepts
- Use these fun books to support maths learning.
- Dialogic reading
- In dialogic reading the adult helps the child become the teller of the story. The adult becomes the listener, the questioner, an audience for the child.
Starting school
- Starting school
- Some resources to help you choose a school for your child and get them ready to start school.
