Children’s Book Week is coming up, and we want to see your favourite book characters come to life! 📚✨

To celebrate this year’s Symphony of Stories, Horsham Library is inviting children in Grade 6 and below to enter our Children’s Book Week Drawing Competition.

Simply grab some paper and draw your favourite book character doing something you love to do! Maybe your favourite character is reading, dancing, playing sport, baking, gaming, exploring—or something completely silly. Let your imagination take over!

🏆 There are prizes to be won, and winning entries, runners-up and honourable mentions will be proudly displayed at the library.

How to enter:

• 🎨 Draw your favourite book character doing something you love.
• ✏️ Include your name and age/grade.
• 📞 Add a parent or carer’s contact details.
• 📚 Drop your entry into Horsham Library (please hand it to staff rather than putting it through the returns chute!).

Entries are open from 6 August until Sunday 6 September 2026.

So sharpen those pencils, grab your crayons and get drawing! We can’t wait to see which book characters make an appearance. 💙📖✨

And we’re fully expecting at least a few Rumi drawings from K-Pop Demon Hunters*! 😄*

Early Years sessions

It would be such a shame to let Children’s Book Week pass without dressing up! All of our Early Years sessions run this week will have our staff in costume, and we hope to see others dressed up too.

Who knows, maybe we can have our own parade!

And of course, we’ll be reading our favourites from the Shortlist at each session. Take a peak at the shortlist here.