BookTrust Storytime for families
Find out how you can get involved with BookTrust Storytime fun at your local library.
What is BookTrust Storytime?
BookTrust Storytime is an exciting library experience for families, offering a fun, easy way to entertain your under 5s at your local library. Come and enjoy free and lively activities in a space you can have fun and enjoy stories together.
How do I get involved?
BookTrust is an exciting library experience for families. Head to your local library to find out if they'll be taking part - you can find your nearest library here. And don't forget to tell your family and friends about BookTrust Storytime, too!
Discover this year's BookTrust Storytime books
We've chosen five books that we think are perfect for enjoying with children aged 0-5! Libraries taking part in BookTrust Storytime have been sharing these books, and families have been voting for their favourites.
Look Out! Hungry Snake: A hide-and-seek flap book
This lovely lift-the-flap book – with good, thick pages and flaps– is colourful and playful, and introduces little ones to a selection of animals and their noises or actions.
Read more about Look Out! Hungry Snake: A hide-and-seek flap book
Joe loves wild animals and nature, but he lives in the city where it feels like there is no wildness to be found.
Experience excitement of the jungle as wildlife is brought to life by an interactive slider and animal sounds.
A delightful and interactive rhyming book for little ones which uses the Ten Little Ducklings rhyme, but invents a variety of exciting adventures for the ducklings instead, asking readers to play hide and seek with the adorable little ducks.
We're sharing fun videos from the authors of our five shortlisted books, perfect for families who are enjoying the stories at home.
Author Madhvi Ramani reads Whisper, Shout: Let It Out!
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Madhvi Ramani reads her Storytime Prize shortlisted book Whisper, Shout: Let It Out!
Into the Wild read by author Thomas Docherty
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Author Thomas Docherty reads his Storytime shortlisted book Into the Wild
Paul Delaney reads his book Look Out! Hungry Snake
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Paul Delaney reads his book Look Out! Hungry Snake, shortlisted for the BookTrust Storytime Prize
Lucy Rowland reads her book Ten Little Ducklings
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Lucy Rowland reads her book Ten Little Ducklings, illustrated by Aki, shortlisted for the BookTrust Storytime Prize
It's been very interactive. I like the fact that Donna, the librarian, reads the book to us and demonstrates as she’s going through. A few times we actually had the copy of the book ourselves at the same time as she was reading, which is nice because it keeps my son Milo occupied. It’s really enjoyable
If you're worried about your child sitting still or being quiet or misbehaving, you don’t need to worry. My son Elvis is in the books, pulling them out as I’m frantically trying to put them away. But the library staff say, “Don’t worry about it, it’s absolutely fine, just let them play.” It's a really positive environment
'My granddaughter feels really happy, she looks forward to it':
Read about one grandmother's BookTrust Storytime experience by clicking here
