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Author and illustrator of the best-selling How to Train Your Dragon books series, Cressida Cowell, virtually visited schools for an exciting Q&A on World Book Day, as part of...

We teamed up with the Morrisons Foundation to give pupils in schools throughout England, Scotland and Wales a bundle of new books for their school library in celebration of World...

Read Manchester celebrates with a virtual visit from Waterstones Children’s Laureate and award-winning author, Cressida Cowell, and bumper book donations to schools and children...

This World Book Day, the National Literacy Trust and Oak National Academy have come together to create a virtual celebration of books and reading featuring special guest Her Royal...

Schools in Islington are invited to exciting author events this week to mark new initiative Get Islington Reading. Authors Sita Brahmachari and Tom McLaughlin will each host...

We are working with the Premier League to distribute nearly 25,000 books to primary schools and we're hosting a fun-filled Premier League Primary Stars Facebook Live event,...

Award-winning comedian, actor and writer, Matt Lucas, delighted children from 33 schools across our 14 local areas with a fun-filled virtual visit as part of our Connecting Stories...

We’re so excited to be working with Bupa Foundation to launch Well Ahead, our new platform encouraging young people to use creative writing as a way to process events from the wider...

Our prison reading programme, Books Unlocked, has just announced its first book list for 2021.

Here are several of our top picks among the many resources we have available for teachers and parents as well as booklists to help inspire young people to read for enjoyment

We’re delighted to announce a new three-year partnership with Hachette UK in which we will co-create programmes to help children, young people and adults in disadvantaged...

On the weekend of 20 March 2021, our annual Where’s Wally? fun run is gong virtual, for the whole weekend! we are delighted to have dynamic author duo Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton,...

We are delighted to launch a new fundraising campaign which encourages everyone to share their favourite books on social media and help raise awareness and vital funds for our...

This Children’s Mental Health Week, we are supporting children’s mental health charity Place2Be and their mission to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young...

To celebrate storytelling week, we have brought together some top storytelling resources you can share with your pupils to encourage them to read, write or tell their own stories

To celebrate National Storytelling Week, we’re joining forces with Premier League Primary Stars and Girls FC author Helena Pielichaty to bring children a series of football-themed...

On Tuesday we re-launched the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Literacy.

We are delighted to announce that 18 publishers and 32 authors are involved in our Connecting Stories campaign.