Reading stories with your child is a great way to bond and create shared experiences. It helps your child to develop their imagination, improve language skills and support cognitive development.
The RCT Libraries service allows you and your child to loan books and eBooks which can be downloaded from the library's website. If you become a member of the library, you can check the availability of titles and reserve a copy here.
Each month on the RCT Families website we will recommend some fun stories that you can read with your children.
Here are our top recommendations for October 2026:
English Language Stories
Funnybones
This story is about a family of skeletons who spend a night on the town looking for people to haunt and riding on the skeleton animals at the zoo.
Reserve a copy in a RCT library.
Room on the Broom
This book tells the story of a kind witch and her cat who invite three other animals (a dog, a bird and a frog) to join them travelling on her broomstick.
Reserve a copy in a RCT library.
Welsh Language Stories
Eliffant yn fy Nghegin!
What if there was an elephant in your kitchen, a tiger on your loo, a gorilla in your bedroom, whatever would you do? When wild animals move into Rafi's house, he needs to figure out a BIG PLAN to get them back to their own homes.
Reserve a copy in a RCT library.
Cynan a'r Ddeilen Fach
As autumn begins, Cynan gets worried as his beautiful tree begins to lose all its leaves. Whatever Cynan does to try to save his tree, he has no success. When the last leaf falls, Cynan feels very despondent - until he returns the next day to a glorious scene.
Reserve a copy in a RCT library.
For further resources and information to help you read and explore stories with your child visit BookTrust Cymru.