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Story Garden Summer Reading Challenge 2025

Every year Coventry Libraries run a free Summer Reading Challenge for children aged 0 – 11 to sign up to share and read six books over the summer holiday.

This year’s theme is Story Garden and is all about exploring the connection between storytelling and nature being creative. We’re encouraging children to be curious, creative and connect with the natural world — building reading confidence while promoting wellbeing.

From Saturday 5 July children aged 0 – 11 can come and collect their Story Garden free fun collector poster and stickers at a Coventry library. At two further visits to libraries through the summer children can collect more stickers to complete their Challenge. Children don’t need to be big readers to enter the Challenge and parents/ carers can share books with children aged 4 and under to collect stickers.

Coventry Libraries have lots of books to suit all abilities and interests including picture books, early readers, comic-style books and books about fun subjects like animals, crafts and cookery.

This year, all completers to the challenge will receive a small reward and be invited to collect their certificate and medal at a special ceremony at the library in September!

See more about Story Garden Summer Reading Challenge [http://www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk].

Story Garden book collection

The 2025 Summer Reading Challenge Story Garden book collection features 59 captivating titles for different reading levels, including picture books, early readers, and middle grade titles, as well as dyslexia-friendly titles.

With a mix of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and graphic novels, the collection has been carefully curated to engage young minds with the wonders of the great outdoors with the input of reading specialists and an expert reading panel.

Clicking the book title will take you to the library catalogue where you can check for a book in stock or reserve a copy to read!