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: 44 West Walk, Yate, South Gloucestershire BS37 4AX
Phone: 01454 868006
Fax: 01454 865712
Website: www.librarieswest.org.uk or www.southglos.gov.uk/libraries
Email:
Socials: 
sgloslibraries 
@southgloslibs
Click here to view the current staffed and open access hours.
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.
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.
