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Kids Scene

Welcome to Fingal County Libraries Kids Scene! Bad Hair

Check out the What's On page to see what FREE activites are happening in your local library this month

Joining your local library is FREE.

Follow 3 easy steps

1.  Log onto www.fingalcoco.ie/library and click on ‘’How to Join’.

      2 .  Print out or bring the number issued, plus some identification that has both photo and address to your local library. You parent/guardian must accompany you on your first visit in order to sign the form.

     3.       Collect you library card

 

Do you know you can borrow Books,CDs,DVDs,Gaming for Wii, PC, Ds Lite, Playstation and Xbox, Audio books from the library?

You can access Project Information in the library or online through databases we subscribe to. 

 For example, If you are learning about the Tudors in school this year, this site will be very useful for you; http://spotlight.britannica.co.uk/Tudors

 

Britannica Irish Library Quiz  

Enter the Britannica Irish Library Online Quiz here http://www.britannica.co.uk/quiz

 

 Board Games, Arts and Crafts, Author visits, Competitions and Quizzes are regularly held in the library. Join in anytime.   

For ideas on what you might read see http://www.puffin.co.uk/static/puffinminisites/puffin70/downloads.html

Check out our Library Catalogue. http://library.fingalcoco.ie/cgi-bin/fingal-cat.sh

If you can't find the book you want - Just ask the Library Staff, we are here to help!
We can also get books for you from other libraries.

Reading book reviews is a great way to discover new books to read. If you would like to tell others about a book you have read and enjoyed why not write a review, we will show your book reviews on this page every month. Book review must be no longer than 150 words.
Just email your book review to us libraries@fingalcoco.ie or drop it into your local library
Be sure to include all these important details:
Your name and age, the author and title of the book and the name of your local library. Please keep all book review to 150 words or less

If you have any suggestions please email us libraries@fingalcoco.ie We would love to hear from you.

 

Adventures in Green Gardening for Budding Gardeners 

Fingal Libraries in conjunction with gardener Peter Donegan are hosting a series of classes with primary school children to teach them the real facts of nature. The sessions will cover topics such as gardening, water, the great outdoors, how plants make their own food and how we grow ours, fruit and vegetables, trees and flowers, making a living edible garden and staying green at home.

These classes will give the children the opportunity to get their hands dirty and do some planting themselves and at the same time have fun while exploring the natural world and biodiversity.

The garden classes entitled, Adventures in Green Gardening, start Tuesday 16th October and will run for 6 weeks.

A list of books has been compiled by Peter Donegan and Fingal Libraries for the children to read themselves and also a list of more detailed books for parents. All of the books noted are available from Fingal Libraries.

Children’s Gardening Books

  • Horrible Science: Wasted World – N. Arnold (J333.7)
  • Disappearing Forests – A Royton (J333.75)
  • Wonderful Water – H. Lanz – (J333.91)
  • Food for Life – J. Baines – (J333.7)
  • Earth: The Incredible Recycling Machine – P. Bennett (J333.72)

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  • Our Living Planet – Y. Arthus-Bertrand (J333.72)
  • The Earth’s Resources – R. & L. Spilsbury (J333.7)
  • Why Should I switch off the Light? – M .J. Knight (J333.7)
  • How we use plants for making things – S Morgan (J581.636)
  • How we use plants for making medicine and health – S Morgan (J581.634)

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  • How we use plants for making Food – S Morgan (J581.632)
  • How we use plants for making Shelter – S Morgan (J581.636)
  • Cycles in nature: Plant Life – T. Greenaway (J581.7)
  • Watch it Grow: Sunflowers – B Watts
  • The Life of Plants – F. Walton (J581.2)

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  • Flowers, Fruits & Seeds – S Morgan (J581)
  • The Plant Kingdom: A Guide to plant Classification & Biodiversity (J580).
  • Growing Plants – P. Riley (J631.5)
  • Vegetables – N. Edwards (J635)
  • Gairdin an Nadur – M. Cox (J639.92g)

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  • Little Green Fingers – M An Vanhage (J635)
  • Watch it grow for young gardeners – J. Bullock & D James (J635)
  • RHS how does my garden grow? – (J635) 
  • Green Fingers & Muddy Boots: A year in the garden for children & families S. Santer (J635)
  •  Watch it grow – B. Watts (J635.65)
  • Circle of life: Growing Things (J635.9)

Adults’ Gardening Books

 

  • The complete Book of Vegetables, Herbs & Fruit – M.Biggs, J. McVicar
  • First time Gardener – S. Buczacki
  • How to Garden – (Hamlyn)   (06006083799334)
  • A year in the garden – S. Bradley
  • Gardeners’ Question time – J. Cushnie B Flowerdew et al

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  • A handful of herbs – B. Segall
  • New Encyclopedia of gardening techniques – RHS
  • The Gourmet Gardener – B. Flowerdew
  • The complete book of Weekend Garden Projects – J. Wendy
  • The vegetable Gardener’s Ultimate A-Z – E.C. Smith

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  • How to make your garden grow -  T. Buckland
  • Your Herb garden month by month – B. Segall
  • The gardening book – P. McHoy
  • The Living Garden – Jane Powers
  • The garden in autumn – E. Clarke

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  • Reader’s Digest complete guide to Gardening – Season by Season
  • A farmer’s life for me -  J. Doherty
  • Composting Inside & Out – S. Denies
  • Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – RHS. M. Pollock.
  • The Thrifty gardener – A. Fowler
  • Complete Fruit book – B. Flowerdew
  • Woodlands – O.Rackham (52.16)
  • Trees of Ireland – Nature and natuilised E. Charles Nelson (582.1609415)
  • Trees- an Explore your world handbook (Discovery Channel)
  • How to Identify trees – P. Harding (582.16)
  • Flowers at my feet – B. Gibbons (582.13)

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  • Going Green: The Irish Guide to Living a greener life Tony O’ Brien (333.7209415)
  • Drive like a woman, shop like a man: Green is cheaper M Muvihill (333.72)
  • There’s a hippo in my cistern: One man’s misadventures on the Eco- Frontline – Pete May (333.72092)
  • Shades of Green: A (mostly) practical A-Z for the reluctant environmentalist – P.Waddington (333.72)
  • Communities, councils & a low carbon future- what we can do if governments won’t – A. Powell (333.72)
  • Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers Of Britain & Europe. – H. L. Pursee (582.13)