Manchester Library Trail

19/08/2026

Our newly refurbished Little library Wythenshawe Park is in need of children's books donations. Located in the courtyard next to Pebble & Friends MCR

17/08/2026

✨️ A Little Library Gets a Second Chance! ✨️

Thanks to our friends at Heightvale Ltd one of our original park Little Libraries has been given a fantastic new lease of life. After being abandoned and destined for the skip, it was rescued by a park ranger and lovingly restored.

It's now looking better than ever!

Margaret and John from Friends of Ladybarn Park will be opening up as usual this Saturday, so why not stop by and see the transformation?

Little Library open Saturdays 11am - 1pm
MCRparks

05/08/2026

Join Read Manchester today for free books, storytime and sign up to the Summer Reading Challenge

Celebrate National Play Day with us this Wednesday 5 August🛝

We'll be at Platt Fields Park from 11am, as part of our summer reading roadshows series!

Come along for storytelling, choose a free book to take home, and take part in fun activities inspired by this year's Summer Reading Challenge, Read to the Beat. We'll be making our own junk instruments and discovering how stories, music and imagination go hand in hand.

The wonderful Manchester Libraries team will also be there, sharing everything you need to know about the reading challenge and answering any questions about your local libraries.

Will you be coming along?

31/07/2026

Tonight we discussed The Barbecue at No 9 by Jennie Godfrey it was a resounding success! All the readers loved the nostalgia and the interesting way the plot played out. They also thought that the characters had great depth just as we did with The List of Suspicious Things. Great 2nd book from Jennie.

Our next book is The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali we will be discussing this a little later than usual on Friday the 4th Sept as I am off to see Pulp on the usual date!!!🥳

If you would like to join our friendly online book club please email [email protected] and we will add you to our list.

30/07/2026

✨️Transformation complete! ✨️
Our friends at have done a fantastic job restoring the Wythenshawe Little free Library.

Here is Park park ranger Will who was very impressed and very pleased that the library is back up and running for all the summer events!

We would also like to thank Pebble and friends for their continued support. Follow them for updates.
MCRparks

27/07/2026

Introducing our summer reading roadshows schedule 🌞

Here’s everywhere we will be over the summer:

On Sunday 26 July, it's the city-wide Manchester Day celebration parade, and we will be based at Central Library.

To celebrate Love Parks Week, you can find us in Wythenshawe Park on Thursday 30 July.

Then, we’ll be in Platt Fields Park on Wednesday 5 August for National Play Day.

Wrapping things up on Saturday 22 August in Philips Park for the 180th year celebration of Manchester's first ever park.

We will let you know timings and what you can expect before each event, so keep checking our page for updates.

We can't wait to share the joys of reading with you this summer!

14/07/2026

Today we did a little top up and tidy at the Oxford Rd little library on our way to a meeting about reading, libraries and literacy! Why not pick up a book for your journey and give us a tag to let us know what you choose! Its located in the waiting room on platform 4!

11/07/2026

Last weekend we took part in the
Our very first little free library was established on Broadlea Rd Burnage in 2020 by Helen Beesley
For the parade we wanted to celebrate books and nod to the theme of animals, in particular the birds and foxes of Burnage. Thanks to Didsbury Arts Festival for hosting. Click through to read our versions of these classic books!

05/07/2026

What an amazing day we had at the . We marched in our brilliant book costumes made by Caroline Jane from Withington Free Little Library. It was amazing to see so many people marching and to see all the people who came to wave us on. We saw lots of friends and neighbours along the way.

Our park volunteers Dawn and Jake had already been busy since we set up at 10, and we stayed busy all afternoon. We distributed around 500 books, chatted about reading and the summer reading challenge and most importantly little libraries.

What an amazing day! Thanks to the orgainsers for all their hard work to pull this off!

To enable us to participate in more events like this we need more volunteers so please get in touch if you would like to volunteer.
Burnage Little Free Library Helen Beesley

04/07/2026

Books have been stickered, costumes made, cars packed and we are ready for the Big Burnage Parade and Foglane Park stall tomorrow. See previous post for the details. Come down, we will have books for all ages!