{"id":148199,"date":"2026-03-25T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148199\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:02:08","slug":"celebrate-year-of-reading-2026-at-citys-libraries-this-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148199\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Year of Reading 2026 at city’s libraries this Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026 is the National Year of Reading \u2013 a nationwide campaign led by the National Literacy Trust in partnership with the Department for Education, championing the power of reading to transform lives.<\/p>\n

A range of free events are taking place over the Easter school holidays. Central Children\u2019s Library has an Easter Baby Bop for under 4s on Tuesday, March 31 from 10.30-11.30am, an Easter Bunnies story and craft session for over 5s on Wednesday, April 1 from 2-3.30pm, Brain Olympics with the NHS for over 5s on Tuesday, April 7 from 11am-2pm, and a Spring Fever story and craft session for over 5s on Wednesday, April 8 from 2-3.30pm.<\/p>\n

Also at Central Library, older children aged seven to 12 can enjoy Creative Writing with Explore Learning on Tuesday, April 7 from 2-3pm, and Spring Digital Art on Friday, April 10 from 2.30-3.30pm. Call 01902 552023 to book.<\/p>\n

\"EasterEaster Activities at Wolverhampton Libraries <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tettenhall Library is hosting an Easter Egg-Stravaganza story and craft session for the over 4s on Saturday, March 28 from 11am-12.30pm, and Warstones Library has a Family Board Games Drop-In session on Monday, March 30 from 11am-2pm, and an Easter Egg Hunt from Monday, March 30 until Friday, April 10, both of which are suitable for children of all ages.<\/p>\n

And there will be a series of Robot Games sessions for children aged six and over, taking place at Low Hill Library on Tuesday,\u00a0March 31 from 2.30-3.30pm, Pendeford Library on Thursday, April 2 from 11.30am-12.30pm, Spring Vale Library on Tuesday, April 7 from 11.30am-12-30pm, and Ashmore Park Library on Thursday, April 9 from 11.30am-12.30pm.<\/p>\n

Councillor Obaida Ahmed, the City of Wolverhampton Council\u2019s Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing and Community, said: “Our libraries are supporting the National Year of Reading campaign by offering free, high\u2011quality activities all year round.<\/p>\n

“This Easter programme shows just how exciting and inspiring reading can be \u2013 whether through storytelling, digital art or creative challenges \u2013 and we’re encouraging families to come along to join in the fun and make the most of their local library.”<\/p>\n

It’s free to join Wolverhampton’s libraries \u2013 to find out more, please visit wolverhampton.gov.uk\/libraries<\/a>, call 01902 552025 or follow the library service on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 is the National Year of Reading \u2013 a nationwide campaign led by the National Literacy Trust in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1681,1756,128,130,129,7852,67516],"class_list":["post-148199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-search","tag-your-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}