National Libraries Week

Can you come up with a book themed word for each letter of the alphabet? Here's our book alphabet challenge page to print and distribute.

This book frame can be used in many ways, and comes in three varieties: blank, one side lined and the other left unlined for a picture, and both sides lines. Use it as a writing or drawing frame, for book reports, for notices on the board, or even as story paper ...

Here's a fun way to keep a reading list! Just get the kids to write the names of the books (and maybe the authors) on the spines and covers on the picture. Perhaps they could colour in each book as they read it?

Do you create a reading list for your children? If so this is the planner for you. Alternatively use it to encourage children to choose their own books. It would be helpful for listing books to read for a project or to make a list of those to reserve from the library.

These colouring bookmarks are chunky and fun, depicting a bookshelf full of adult books for the kids to colour in and perfect for them to give a favourite adult as a little gift...

Here's a fun bookshelf full of cookery books for the kids to colour in - and it makes a perfect little gift for them to give to any favourite adult cooks, especially with a nice message on the back!

Colour in and cut out 4 fun bookworm colouring bookmarks - perfect for keeping the place in your reading books! We've left space for writing page numbers, a child's name or a message.

These lovely colouring bookmarks are sure to go down well with the kids! Print onto card and cut out in advance, then hand them out to be coloured in. Libraries could leave a stack out ready to be coloured. We have a pre-coloured version too, here.

This lovely bright printable poster will brighten up the classroom, library or nursery, and hopefully remind children of how much fun it is to read books! You could even write your favourite titles on the spines with a fine tipped pen.

If I could learn about anything at all, I would like to learn about.... Children can draw pictures or write about all the things they would most like to learn about using this open book printable.

Here's a fun step by step tutorial teaching children how to draw a librarian - part of our professions and school series of learn to draw printables. Click below for the printable version.

Here's a cheerful librarian colouring page for young children.  I'm sure she won't tell you to 'shh!'

Coming up with one word for each letter of the alphabet, all to do with the library, isn't going to be easy! Print out our library alphabet challenge and give it a go...

These library colouring bookmarks can be used for the public library or the school library. Why not cut them out in advance and put a stack out, ready for the kids to colour in? Every bookmark needs a book to put it in...

Help the librarian find her way through the maze to collect the book on the other side. If the book doesn't go back on the shelf, who will be able to borrow it?

Our library scavenger hunt is a brilliant way to get the kids involved at the library and help them discover everything that's on offer. Print a page for each child, give them a pencil, and off they go!

Hunt through our fun library word search puzzle to find the library-themed words! There's a picture for the kids to colour in too, if they like.

Ask the kids to draw one of their favourite book characters into each of the gallery windows on this fun activity - perhaps for World Book Day, or National Libraries Day?  

Ask the children to choose five of their favourite books and illustrate them for this picture gallery printable. This might make a good end-of-summer-holiday activity.

This is a fun activity that can be done at home or in the library. You will need to look through lots of picture books to find the things in this scavenger hunt and you might find some interesting new books to read. 

Children will enjoy studying this lovely picture of children enjoying a session in the library - and then answering our interesting questions!

A little girl enjoys reading a story with her Grandma in this pretty colouring page. Why not send it to Grandma with a letter or a note on the back?

Do you know anybody who loves books? Then this is the card to give them - and they will love it even more because of the effort gone in to colouring it.

This story paper is the story of my life! It's a fun one for the kids to colour in and use for a writing activity. Perhaps they could record a list of books they want to read? Or you could use it to send a letter to a book loving friend...

Here's a cute story time poster to display in your story corner or bring out when it is story time.

Colour in this cute picture of a teacher reading with children on the story mat. Fold for a quick card.

Here's a lovely colouring page of a peaceful story time scene in the classroom. There's lots of detail to make it interesting to colour in.

Even in this digital age there are many of us who love a good book - and who love colouring in, too! Print this card and colour it in for someone special.

"The world belongs to those who read." This quote story paper and colouring page in one is ideal for writing book reviews or for World Book Day writing projects.

We thought it would be fun to make a colouring page that reminded children that it's time to visit the library - so here it is! We have a poster, too.

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon who could not be happy?" This story paper might be useful for writing a book review, or for a list of your favourite books and flowers?

Here is a colouring card for one of my all-time favourite quotes by Oscar Wilde: "With freedom, books, flowers and the moon who could not be happy?"