Rhymetime / storytimes / fun activities
Rhymetime
Rhymetime sessions are a great place for toddlers to use language in a fun and engaging way. The library service also works with partners at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust who sometimes attend rhymetime sessions with useful health and wellbeing advice for your little ones.
View times and dates of Rhymetime sessions
Coventry Libraries on YouTube is the place to find videos of Rhymetimes.
Online resources
Have a look at these helpful websites for stories, booklists, nursery rhymes and much more
- ASCEL’s YouTube channel has lots of great stories and activities for children
- National Literacy Trust has fun resources and advice for families to help with literacy for all ages
- CBeebies contains singalongs to your favourite nursery rhymes, a bedtime story for every night and mind boggling puzzles.
- Tiny Happy People helps you develop your child's communication skills.
- BookTrust - fun at home with authors and illustrators - activities for you to try with your children while they are at home and lots of links to other websites too.
- British Library - discovering children's books - explore centuries of stories, poems and illustrations.
- Jackanory Junior - storytelling for younger children.
- National Shelf Initiative – a daily YouTube broadcast (11am Monday to Friday) featuring book recommendations from library staff aimed at helping children and families discover new diverse reading experiences.
- Scottish BookTrust - authors on demand - watch authors read from and discuss their books.
- Usborne Play and Learn - topics children are already studying at school, with new ideas that will expand their minds.