As part of Kirklees’ efforts to fight the coronavirus and reduce infection rates, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily suspend some of our library services, including our ring and read service.
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Kirklees Libraries have done a fantastic job keeping local communities connected during lockdown. But a few weeks into the pandemic staff soon realised that people were desperate for reading material and physical books as not everyone has access to online facilities.
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This week on Library Adventures Live, we joined Nadine Kaadan, award-winning author and illustrator. Nadine read from her book ‘Tomorrow’ in both Arabic and English.
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What a fantastic library adventure from two wonderfully talented poets. This week we were joined by Conrad Burdekin and Dom Conlon who read out a few of their poems and talked about different language techniques…
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Kirklees Libraries are launching an exciting online programme of activities to coach residents to become writers. Writer in Residence The programme called ‘Writer in Residence’, will launch this week and will be spearheaded by local author Christina Longden. She will be running monthly online chats, workshops and masterclasses with the aim to encourage writers at all points on their writing
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On Tuesday 25th August, we joined Jack Noel, author and illustrator of ‘My Headteacher is an Evil Genius’.
The session was a special ‘young presenter take-over’, hosted by May and Poppy, while Jack gave us an excerpt from his book, talked about pets and showed us all how to draw his favourite characters!
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Author Josh Lacey is asking us to save the world with this week’s challenge. What would you do to make the planet a better place?
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In October 2015 Kirklees’ Library Development Manager Andy Wright took on the biggest challenge of his life, pledging to run 5,000 miles in 5 years as a long term fundraising effort for Kirkwood Hospice. This Saturday, Andy will complete the 5,000 miles two months ahead of schedule, running from Emley Moor to Castle Hill.
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