Stoke-on-Trent Libraries

05/10/2026

🧸Little Dragon Bedtime Story Explorers
🧸Tuesday 6 October, 4.30-5.30pm - ‼️tomorrow‼️
🧸Bentilee Library

Bring your favourite blanket or teddy and snuggle up as we share stories and songs to get your little story explorers ready for bedtime.

Suitable for children aged 0-6, but older children and siblings are welcome to join in too!

03/10/2026

To mark the start Stoke Book Festival the children (and some adults) created and named their own book characters based on Giles and Alexandra Milton's fantastic "Call Me Gorgeous" and we think they are all spectacular!

02/10/2026

🌌Space and Alien theme Story & Craft 🛸
🏫@ Meir Library
⏰Saturday 3rd October - 11am - 12pm ⏰
Join us for this free activity. Where a story will be shared followed by Alien and planets crafts to take home! Children under 8 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

02/10/2026

We LOVE AJ West's books and we can't wait to find out more about Everest Macdonald in AJ's brand new twisty-turny dark historical mystery, 'The Deadly Inheritance of Everest MacDonald'.

Come and meet AJ at Stoke Book Festival on Saturday 10 October. Tickets available now!

Have you seen the hype around AJ's new book?! Closing out our festival programme, AJ West joins us Saturday 10 October at 6 pm. His new book 'The Deadly Inheritance of Everest Macdonald ' will have just been released, so here's our first opportunity to discover more about this deadly atmospheric read.

Saturday 10 October | 6pm | Stoke Minster

Tickets available at www.stokebookfestival.co.uk

Don't miss your last chance to catch a Stoke Book Festival event this season! 🎉📚

01/10/2026

♟️Calling all chess players.♟️

City Central Library - Hanley is hosting its latest Chess Tournament on 26 October, just four weeks away!

If you're new to the game and want to take a big step on the journey to becoming a grandmaster, then now's your chance!

You can register by contacting us at [email protected]

01/10/2026

🦕Little Dragon Story Explorers - 1,2,3 Do the Dinosaur
🦖Friday 2 October, 10.30-11.30am - ‼️tomorrow‼️
🦕City Central Library, Hanley

Tomorrow at City Central Library (Hanley)
Come and have a ROARSOME time as we share dinosaur-themed songs, stories and crafts.

We'll be reading Michelle Robinson's 1,2,3 Do The Dinosaur
Stomp your feet, swish your tail and join in with the actions as you learn how to be a dinosaur.

Suitable for children aged 0-5,

30/09/2026

🧸Little Dragon Bedtime Story Explorers
🧸Tuesday 6 October, 4.30-5.30pm
🧸Bentilee Library

Bring your favourite blanket or teddy and snuggle up as we share stories and songs to get your little story explorers ready for bedtime.

Suitable for children aged 0-6, but older children and siblings are welcome to join in too!

30/09/2026

🥪🧀🥒 Calling all Little Lunchbox Legends! 🥒🧀🥪

🥪Lettuce entertain you this Saturday (3 October) at Stoke Library with FREE children’s activities, all about everyone’s favourite lunchtime treat... SANDWICHES! 🥪

🧱 10:30 - 11:30am: LEGO Club: Build Your Best Sandwich!
Can you make a sandwich that’s un-bread-lievable? Stack, build and get creative with LEGO! 🥪
🎨 12 - 1pm: Stories and Craft: The Disgusting Sandwich!
Get ready for a loaf of laughs as we discover The Disgusting Sandwich and make some sandwich-themed crafts! 🤢

🥪 Don’t be a sarnie-saurus – come along and get stuck in! 🌟

Children under 8 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

29/09/2026

To celebrate the first Stoke Book Festival Stoke-on-Trent City Archives are offering free behind the scenes tours of their historic book collection on Saturday 3 October.

Celebrating Stoke-on-Trent’s first ever Stoke Book Festival, the City Archives is offering a free behind the scenes tour of the Stoke-on-Trent’s historic book collection on Saturday 3rd October at 11 am.

To book onto the tour ring 01782 238420 or email [email protected].

Meet at the reception desk at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley, where a member of the City Archives team will be waiting to take you into the basement store to see rare and unusual books in the City’s collection. Then we’ll head upstairs to the archives reading room, where you can also see first editions of books by local authors, 1925-2025, selected for the centenary 100 Books project, and finally enjoy reading and relaxing in our Book Nook with a cuppa from the Museum’s café.

https://stokebookfestival.co.uk/