All children under five in North Lincolnshire can receive a free book every month from the Imagination Library. Sign your child up from birth and they’ll receive 60 books in total to help start a lifelong love of books and reading.
Once your child has graduated from the scheme, continue sharing stories together through your local library.
As children’s reading ability improves, they will often like to go back and read for themselves the books they got when they were younger. Even if you think your child has grown out of one of their books, it’s a good idea to keep it. They’ll probably love to rediscover it for themselves in a few months – or even years.
Continue Sharing Stories
Once a child turns five, they’ll graduate from the Imagination Library, however this is just the start of a lifelong love of books and reading.
You can continue sharing stories with your children for free through your local library. Our children’s libraries have thousands of books for your child to choose from, for all different ages, so you can continue to develop their vocabulary, reading and communication skills together.
If you want to buy some books, why not look out for ones in the same series as those your child loved from the Imagination Library?
Re-gifting the Imagination Library Books
Once your child has graduated from the Imagination Library, you may want to re-gift your books. You could give your books to family and friends with young children. Even if they live in North Lincolnshire and are signed-up to the Imagination Library, some of the books change year-on-year so they will likely get different ones.
