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Library Adventures is our free, year-round reading for pleasure programme for children aged 4-11.

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Updated July 8, 2025
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Let's Get Gardening
DK.
Ebook
In this colorful guide featuring 30 easy gardening projects, kids will learn to grow their own fruits and vegetables, attract wildlife such as butterflies and bees, and recycle household items into animal habitats and fun decorations. Whether they've got a big backyard or just a windowsill, kids...
The secret garden
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Paper Book
After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key...
My first gardening book : 35 easy and fun projects for budding gardeners
Cico Kidz.
Paper Book
35 fun projects that teach children aged 7 and up how to garden. 35 fun projects that teach children aged 7 and up how to garden. If you're a budding gardener, you can discover how to sow and grow successfully with My First Gardening Book. In Chapter 1,...
Grow your own for kids
Collins, Chris, gardener.
Paper Book
In Grow Your Own For Kids, Chris Collins shows how to sow and grow 10 easy vegetables that kids love to eat. Simple step-by-step sequences will guide and inspire them; presenting fun challenges such as growing the tallest sunflower and the largest pumpkin. A "letter to the grown ups"...
Goodnight, veggies
Murray, Diana
Paper Book
★ "The childlike approach, appealing art, and relatable worm character...connect story and audience." --The Horn Book, STARRED review Every veggie needs their shut-eye in this bedtime book that celebrates community, the joys of a small garden, and the importance of taking care of...
Grow your own vegetables in pots and containers : a practical guide to growing food in small spaces
Peacock, Paul
Paper Book
This book is aimed at the majority of us who live in terraced houses, high rise flats, town houses and semi-detached properties with a small garden and often nowhere to grow but the patio. It shows how to make the most of pots and planters; how to plan for a reasonable yield; and how never to run...
Tom's midnight garden
Pearce, Philippa.
Paper Book
Winner of the Carnegie Medal From beloved author Philippa Pearce, a transcendent story of friendship that Philip Pullman, bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, called "a perfect book."  When Tom's brother gets sick, he's shipped off to spend what he's...

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