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English pupils rise in international reading results
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
English ten-year-olds are now joint eighth in the world in reading as measured by the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study results for 2016.
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Beano inspires Summer Reading Challenge
Friday, December 1, 2017
Libraries will be inspiring young 'Mischief Makers' to read next year as part of the 2018 Summer Reading Challenge, which will also help to mark the 80th anniversary of The Beano comic.
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Blue Peter Book Awards shortlist
Monday, November 27, 2017
Children from 12 schools across the UK will be reading about wizards, warriors and wabbits before helping to choose the winners of the Blue Peter Book Awards, including the Best Story and the Best Book with Facts.
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ReadingZone Festival 2018
Monday, November 27, 2017
Cressida Cowell, bestselling author of the How to Train Your Dragon books, will be headlining the 2018 ReadingZone Festival with a public event on Saturday 3rd February at Dorking, with authors including Sophie McKenzie, Maz Evans and Christian O'Connell joining our schools' programme.
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Rock War giveaway!
Sunday, November 26, 2017
We're featuring bestselling author Robert Muchamore as our Author of the Month - and just to make it even more exciting, we'll be giving away the whole Rock War set to a lucky member!
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Robert Winstone wins science book prize
Sunday, November 26, 2017
Robert Winston's book Home Lab has been chosen by children as the winning book for the Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize 2017.
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Design your own monster!
Sunday, November 26, 2017
Create your own monster, share it on Twitter, and it could be drawn by former children's laureate Chris Riddell.
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WIN this wintery collection!
Sunday, November 26, 2017
We're giving away three copies of this collection of wintery tales, written especially for the book by some of our best children's authors.
