The Black Country Living Museum are currently on the hunt for children's books to populate its 1960s library.

Thanks to kind donations, the museum has currently reached 5000 books to populate the Woodside Library. However, they have now shifted their focus to children’s books, to help recreate the popular 1960s children’s library.

The donations will populate the shelves of the historic library which is currently being rebuilt at the museum on the new 1940s-1960s high street.

The next collecting session will be holding a pop up donation day at Wednesbury Library on Wednesday 13 November between 10am - 4pm. 

The museum team will be at the library processing donations, and are seeking children’s books which have been published and printed in 1963 or before. A range of titles they are looking for includes (but is not limited to):

• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
• Any titles from the correct time period by Beatrix Potter
• Reynard the Fox books
• Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
• Fairacre and Thrush Green series by Miss Read
• Dr Seuss books, particularly The Book of Riddles
• Heidi books by Johanna Spyri
• Roald Dahl books
• Babar the Elephant by Jean de Bruhnhoff
• Tintin by Georges Remi (pen name Herge)
• Orlando The Marmalade Cat by Kathleen Hale
• My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
• The Silver Brumby books by Elyne Mitchell
• Thomas the Tank Engine by Wilbert Awdry
• Biggles books by W.E. Johns
• Janet and John by Mabel O’Donnell
• Oworo by Rene Guillot
• Dean’s books

To find out more about Black Country Living Museum's 1940s-1960s high street, visit bclm.com.