Reasons to love your library 

If you’ve visited your local library recently, you may have noticed a display of books on the theme of love. Although every day is a great day to celebrate love and our libraries, Library Lovers’ Day on 14 February is one day of the year we celebrate all the things we love about our local library. This year’s theme, ‘Only You’, is an opportunity to reflect on how your life has been enriched by your local library and what makes it special to you and your littles ones.  

Libraries are welcoming and safe spaces for families, with free resources and programs to help your child develop a love of reading with you, anytime and anywhere. You can nurture a love of reading and libraries by signing your child up for their own library card and encouraging them to choose their own books.

Modelling a love of reading shows your child that reading is important to you and helps make it important to them. Your child learns through the love, attention and language you share with them, so find moments every day to read together. Library Lovers’ Day is a great opportunity to explore the concept of love with your child and discover all the ways we can feel and show love.   

Perhaps you and your child love visiting the library for its quiet and cosy reading space or for its lively rhyme time? Maybe you love exploring books about your child’s interests or love the free membership which enables you to regularly borrow your child’s favourite books?  

This Library Lovers’ Day, take the opportunity with your child to do what you love doing at the library and be sure to tell your library how much you love them! In fact, tell your friends and family too. Libraries play a valuable role in creating lifelong readers and supporting families to build their child’s early literacy skills.  

Great books about love:   
  

I love me by Sally Morgan   

In my Heart by Jo Witek   

All the love in the world by Louise Fedele and Ana Toro   

Twice the Love by Inda Ahmad Zahri    

The love that grew by Sarah Ayoub