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We usually offer at least one Rhyme Time or Toddler Time from each of our 36 libraries every week and many also hold Storytimes, so while library sessions are suspended, we are finding ways to bring rhymes and stories to you at home!

Here you can watch our online Rhyme Times, Storytimes or Story Magic sessions.

Also, see our Children's Activities page for many more suggestions of stories, rhymes, authors and ways to keep busy and have fun!

We will be adding more resources to this page so please keep checking!

We are joining Pyjamarama with a special Rhyme Time in our Pyjamas! Pyjamarama is a campaign led by Booktrust aimed to get children excited about reading.

As we’re not able to restart our popular Baby Rhyme Time sessions in our libraries, we are posting online Rhyme Times on our Family Corner Facebook page every Tuesday at 10.30am. Join us for 20 minutes of hand-clapping and knee-jogging action songs and nursery rhymes for preschool children and their families. You can also watch past Rhyme Times on our YouTube channel. Come and join in the fun!

Welcome to Storytime Online!

We hope you enjoy this reading of Mabel and the Mountain, written and illustrated by Kim Hillyard and publihsed by Penguin Random House.

Catch up with previous Storytime Online videos in our YouTube playlist.

All of these sessions are subtitled. To see the subtitles on the songs and stories on this page click the small box underlined in red at the bottom of the screen which appears once you start playing the video. To see the subtitles on the additional songs or stories on the playlist on YouTube click the cc icon at the bottom of the screen.

Welcome to Story Magic online!

We hope you enjoy our Story Magic Online: At the Farm, a Bag Books Story. These are fun and suitable for everyone but especially brilliant for children with additional needs.

To take part in this multi-sensory story you may like to gather a few of the following items from around the home to use as props to help bring the story alive and engage with the senses.

The items we will be using for this story are:

1. Torch
2. Child’s welly boots
3. Bucket
4. Egg box
5. Water in a shallow dish
6. Apple
7. White sheet of paper with black splodges to represent cow print
8. Cotton wool
9. Slice of toast
 
If you don’t have an item at home you could swap it for another!

Why not also visit Bag Books to see some of their DIY stories too?

Catch up with previous Story Magic Online videos in our YouTube playlist.

All of these sessions are subtitled. To see the subtitles on the songs on this page click the small box underlined in red at the bottom of the screen which appears once you start playing the video. To see the subtitles on the additional songs on the playlist on YouTube click the cc icon at the bottom of the screen.