Children's Library Service
Headquarters
Block D,
County Hall,
Carricklawn,
Wexford,
Co. Wexford,
Republic of Ireland
Contact
Tel: +353 53 9196560
Wexford Public Libraries children’s services are directed mainly through our branch network. Junior library members are entitled to borrow up to ten items for three weeks before incurring a 5c charge per week or part of for each overdue item.
Class visits to our Branch and Mobile Libraries can be arranged by contacting your local branch librarian to make an appointment.
As well as our branch library presence, Wexford Public Libraries through the Mobile Library Service visit 40 schools throughout County Wexford. Every year numerous events are organised throughout our branch network and indeed in the primary schools of County Wexford. Annual events such as The Children’s Book Festival and The Storytelling Festival take place during October and November each year. Throughout the year various activities take place including story time, arts and crafts, and illustration workshops. (See What's on for current activities).
Lending Service:
Educational Resource Library
This is a specialised collection of materials dedicated to various aspects of childhood, special needs and education. The materials here although not on open display to the general public are available for general lending; you can access our catalogue either by browsing our Library Catalogue on-line, or our OPACS at our branch libraries.
National School and Pre-School teachers can avail of a block loan ticket, which will allow them to borrow up to thirty items for a period of three months.
Block Loan of Fiction Titles to Primary Schools
There are currently fifty titles available for block loan. Thirty copies of each title will be made available for a strict lending period of 3 months.
All loans will have to be collected from and dropped back to your local branch library, by schools that avail of this block loan facility.
Only two title reservations per school will operate until further notice in order to facilitate as many schools as possible benefiting from the scheme
Classroom novels available for block loan
(30 copies of each title available)
| Book Name | Book Name |
|---|---|
| It was a Dark and Stormy Night (Janet Ahlberg) | The Angel of Nitshill Road (Anne Fine) |
| Daft Jack and the Bean Stack (Laurence Anholt) | Bill's New Frock (Anne Fine) |
|
The Robot Dinner Lady (Michael Broad) |
On the Summerhouse Steps (Anne Fine) |
| The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (John Boyne) | Journey to the River Sea (Eva Ibbotson) |
| Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (Eoin Colfer) | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Judith Kerr) |
| Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (Eoin Colfer) | George Speaks (Dick King-Smith) |
| Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer) | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) |
| Benny and Omar (Eoin Colfer) | Goodnight Mr. Tom (Michelle Magorian) |
| The Legend of Spud Murphy (Eoin Colfer) | Seven Spiders Spinning (Gregory Maguire) |
| The Wish List (Eoin Colfer) | The Wreck of the Zanzibar (Michael Morpugo) |
| Fields of Home (Marita Conlon McKenna) | Kensuke's Kingdom (Michael Morpugo) |
| Safe Harbour (Marita Conlon McKenna) | Waiting for Anya (Michael Morpugo) |
| Under the Hawthorn Tree (Marita Conlon McKenna) | Five Children and It (Edith Nesbitt) |
| Wildflower Girl (Marita Conlon McKenna) | Midnight for Charlie Bone (Jenny Nimmo) |
| In Deep Dark Wood (Marita McKenna) | Adam's Starling (Gillian Perdue) |
| The BFG (Roald Dahl) |
Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe) (Siobhan Parkinson) |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (Roald Dahl) |
Holes (Louis Sachar) |
| George's Marvellous Medicine (Roald Dahl) | Some Day, Angeline (Louis Sachar) |
| The Twits (Roald Dahl) | The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog (Jeremy Strong) |
| The Witches (Roald Dahl) | Faraway Home (Marilyn Taylor) |
| The Five Hundred (Eilis Dillon) | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred D. Taylor) |
| Walter Speazlebud (David Donohue) | A Winter of Spies (Gerard Whelan) |
| Bansai O'Hara and the Bloodline Prophesy (John Dougherty) | The Guns of Easter (Gerard Whelan) |
| The Giggler Treatment (Roddy Doyle) | Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) |
| Katie's War (Aubrey Flegg) | Mark Spark in the Dark (Jacqueline Wilson) |
| Castle in the Attic (Elizabeth Winthrop) |
Advisory Service:
If you are thinking of setting up a library at your school, there are many useful publications available for reference e.g. books on children’s literature, school libraries and related topics. Contact the Executive Librarian in your local branch library.
Websites worth visiting:
www.gradu8.net/
www.storiesfromtheweb.org/sfwhomepage.htm
