Library Adventures: Green Libraries

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

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Updated October 17, 2025
Kirklees Libraries
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The extraordinary colours of Auden Dare
Bethell, Zillah
Paper Book
A boy, a robot and an extraordinary adventure!
Don't panic! we can save the planet
Campbell, James
Paper Book
Tired of FREAKING OUT about climate change? Want to stop being an eco-WORRIER and start being an eco-WARRIOR? And do you absolutely, positively LOVE laughing? Then this hands-on and hilarious guide to saving the world is for YOU! Written by award-winning author James Campbell...
Kids fight climate change
Dorey, Martin
Paper Book
Beetle Boy
Leonard, M.G
Paper Book
  The first book in the bestselling BATTLE OF THE BEETLES series - perfect for fans of Roald Dahl! Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2017 Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Children's Book Award 2016
Diary of a young naturalist
McAnulty, Dara
Paper Book
WINNER OF BOOK OF THE YEAR, NARRATIVE NON-FICTION BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2021 Rediscover the natural world with the multi-award winning phenomenon and youngest ever major literary prize winner in UK history. 'Miraculous memoir . . . profoundly moving'...
Wild child : a journey through nature
McAnulty, Dara
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2022 Wainwright Prize for Nature & Conservation Writing for Children 2022 and the 2022 Edward Stanford Children's Travel Book of the Year Join Dara McAnulty, winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Diary of a Young Naturalist, as he takes you on a multi...
Adoette
Monks, Lydia
Paper Book
Adoette lived to be 100 years old. Just imagine all the things she saw! She lived on the same street all her life, but one day, people decided it would be best if she would go... Award-winning and best-selling author-illustrator Lydia Monks, illustrator of...
Fantastically great women who saved the planet
Pankhurst, Kate
Paper Book
'Significantly more engaging and inspiring than the rival Rebel Girls' GUARDIAN 'It's hard to imagine any group of primary-aged children who wouldn't be inspired' BOOKSELLER 'An absolute must-have for every young person's bookshelf' HUFFINGTON...
Sona Sharma, Looking After Planet Earth
Soundar, Chitra.
Paper Book

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