Kirklees Library and Information Centres are inspiring young people to read their way through the summer holidays and earn new trees for UK woods.

The Big Wild Read is the ninth national Summer Reading Challenge for four-to-11-year-olds that runs in libraries throughout the summer holidays. Children are challenged to read six books, spurred on by a range of incentives and activities.

This year the theme is also a call to action for children to make a positive difference to the environment. Libraries and the BBC have worked together to link the Reading Challenge to the Breathing Places environment campaign.

It aims to get people involved with nature by suggesting lots of practical things which families can do together to support wildlife in their neighbourhoods.

This year's challenge has formed a ground-breaking partnership with The Woodland Trust's Tree for All campaign. Every book a child reads as part of the Big Wild Read will be rewarded by tree tokens', which will be translated into new trees for UK woods.

The more books children read, the more trees will be planted - up to 20,000 will be planted in woods throughout the UK in the autumn as a result of the campaign.

Every child who signs up to the challenge at a library in Kirklees will be given a Big Wild Read folder with stickers to collect and free packets of wild flower seeds.

For more information call Linda Smith, children's reading development librarian on (01484) 226365 or call in at your local library.