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Bookstart

Bookstart Logo.

Free Bookstart packs for pre-school children.

National Bookstart Day events

Under 5s can now get free Bookstart Packs through health visitors, libraries and early year groups such as playgroups, nurseries and Sure Start Children's Centres.

Bookstart in Coventry is co-ordinated by Coventry Libraries and Information Services in partnership with the Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust, Early Years and Childcare Development Service and Coventry Sure Start.

For more information on Bookstart please visit the Bookstart website www.bookstart.co.uk

There are three Bookstart packs:

Stoke Library Music Box session 5th October.

Music Box with Wendy Harrisson

  • Bookstart for Babies for children between 0 and 12 months, which is available from health visitors at a local health clinic and libraries.
  • Bookstart+ for toddlers from 18 to 30 months available from libraries and Sure Start Children's Centres and some early years settings.
  • My Bookstart Treasure Chest for pre-school children which are given out at early years settings such as playgroups and nurseries in the child(ren)'s pre-school year.

To obtain any of the packs, parents will need to take their Personal Child Health Record Book (Red Book) to the collecting venue.

Contact details

Early Years Librarian,
Coventry Central Library
Smithford Way
Coventry CV1 1FY
Telephone: 024 7683 2552

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