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For general information: Hammersmith & Fulham T: 020 8753 3824/0303 1230035 | W: www.lbhf.gov.uk/libraries Kensington and Chelsea T: 020 7361 3010 | W: www.rbkc.gov.uk/libraries Westminster T: 020 7641 1300 | W: www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries
taking part across the UK rewards for reading your every year. The challenge books. All books count – is simple: try to read six or stories, picture books and more library books over audio books – as long as the summer. you borrow them from the library. The challenge will run in Cost: Free all libraries throughout Circus Stars – the summer holidays, H. K. W. the Summer with incentives, activities Reading and events designed to Available at the following libraries: Challenge create a real buzz around children’s reading. Askew Road Library 25 July-3 September 87-91 Askew Road, Just head to your local Age: 5-12 (Hammersmith W12 9AS & Fulham), 4-11 library at the beginning T: 020 8753 3863 (Kensington and Chelsea), of the summer holidays Nearest Tube: 0-12 (Westminster). and staff will enrol your Goldhawk Road/ The Summer Reading children – it’s free to join Shepherd’s Bush Challenge is the biggest and every child will receive Market national reading initiative, a membership card or with 750,000 children pack. You can then collect H.
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Barons Court Library Chelsea Library Hammersmith Library North End Crescent, Chelsea Old Town Hall, Shepherd’s Bush Road, W14 8TG King’s Road, SW3 5EZ Hammersmith, W6 7AT T: 020 8753 3888 Nearest Tube: T: 020 8753 3823 Nearest Tube: Sloane Square Nearest Tube: West Kensington Hammersmith Broadway K. H. H. Church Street Library Kensal Library Brompton Library Church Street, NW8 8EU 20 Golborne Road, 210 Old Brompton Road, Nearest Tube: W10 5PF SW5 0BS Edgware Road Nearest Tube: Nearest Tube: Earl’s Court W. Westbourne Park K. K. Fulham Library 598 Fulham Road, Charing Cross Library Kensington Central Fulham, SW6 5NX 4-6 Charing Cross Road, Library T: 020 8753 3877 WC2H 0HF Phillimore Walk, W8 7RX Nearest Tube: Leicester Nearest Tube: Nearest Tube: High Square/Charing Cross Parsons Green Street Kensington W. H. K.
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Maida Vale Library Paddington St. James’s Library Sutherland Avenue, Children’s Library 62 Victoria Street, W9 2QT Clifford Hall, Porchester SW1E 6QP Nearest Tube: Road, W2 5DU Nearest Tube: St. Warwick Avenue/ Nearest Tube: James’s Park/Victoria Maida Vale Paddington W. W. W. St. James’s Library will be closed from 24 August. Marylebone Library Pimlico Library St. John’s Wood Council House, Lupus Street, Library Marylebone Road SW1V 3AT 20 Circus Road, (entrance in Gloucester Nearest Tube: NW8 6PD Place), NW1 5PS Pimlico Nearest Tube: Nearest Tube: Marylebone/ W. St. John’s Wood Baker Street Queen’s Park Library W. W. 666 Harrow Road, Victoria Library W10 4NE Mayfair Library 160 Buckingham Palace Nearest Tube: 25 South Audley Street, Road, SW1W 9UD Queen’s Park/Kensal W1K 2PB Nearest Tube: Victoria Nearest Tube: Green/Westbourne Park W. Bond Street/ W. Green Park/Hyde Park Corner Sands End Library Baby rhyme time W. The Community Centre, and story time 59 Broughton Road, Throughout the North Kensington Fulham, SW6 2LE summer Library T: 020 8753 3885 Age: 0-2 (baby rhyme 108 Ladbroke Grove, Nearest Tube: time)/2-4 (storytime). W11 1PZ Parsons Green/ Each Kensington and Nearest Tube: Fulham Broadway Chelsea library will Ladbroke Grove H. continue to hold a regular K. weekly baby rhyme time Shepherd’s and story time session Notting Hill Bush Library over the summer. Please Gate Library 6 Wood Lane, W12 7BF contact your local library 1 Pembridge Square, T: 020 8753 3842 for more information or W2 4EW Nearest Tube: Wood visit www.rbkc.gov.uk/ Nearest Tube: Lane/Shepherd’s Bush libraries. Notting Hill Gate Market Cost: Free K. H. K.
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Under six The Pimlico Games boxes sessions Toy Library 25 July-3 September Throughout the Monday to 2011 summer Wednesday, 10am-12 Age: 0-12 Age: 0-6 noon and 1-3pm A selection of fun games Storytime sessions Age: 0-5, plus special to help develop children’s including those with holiday sessions for everyday skills, including special Circus Stars children aged 11 and counting, letters, colours themes. Contact your under. and numbers. local Westminster library Play and toy-loan to help Available in every for details. your child to learn and Kensington and Chelsea Venue: have fun through play. library every day over the Westminster libraries Venue: 133a Lupus summer. Cost: Free Street, SW1V 3EN Cost: Free Li brar ie s W. T: 020 7834 3356 K. Cost: £12 joining fee plus Bookstart 20p per toy loan Book Crawl Nearest Tube: Pimlico W. All year (Hammersmith & Fulham), 25 July-3 September (Kensington and Chelsea), 22 July- 3 September (Westminster) Age: 0-4 The Bookstart Book Crawl is a fantastic introduction to the library, with children collecting stickers and certificates each time they borrow books. Book Crawl certificates are lovely keepsakes of your child’s earliest years as a library member. After four visits, children on the Book Crawl in Kensington and Chelsea will receive a teddy bear. Cost: Free H. K. W.
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