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On Friday we hosted a multi-schools event in partnership with Bloomsbury Children’s Books to celebrate the release of the latest book in the popular Kid Normal series by Greg James...

The winners of the second Premier League Writing Stars poetry competition have been announced!

To celebrate The Gruffalo's 20th anniversary, we've launched an exciting new writing competition for primary school pupils.

Tuesday News Day is a new campaign from the News Literacy Network to encourage teachers to discuss the news with their pupils for at least 10 minutes a week.

Almost 750 runners took to Clapham Common on Sunday 17 March for our annual Where’s Wally? fun run.

We've teamed up with Bloomsbury Children’s Books to celebrate the release of the latest book in the popular Kid Normal series by Greg James and Chris Smith. Pupils across...

Reading for pleasure is declining - but we're on a mission to improve it this World Book Day and beyond!

We're giving 125,000 children the chance to discover a love of reading this World Book Day by donating more than 7,300 brand new books to primary schools across the UK.

This weekend, we were joined by 65 families, alongside top authors and illustrators, at Glasgow’s iconic Mitchell Library to celebrate the work of our Early Words Together programme.

Our 2019 auction has just opened for bids, and there are some incredible one-of-a-kind prizes up for grabs.

Our prison reading programme, Books Unlocked, has announced the 10 books that participants will have available to read in 2019.

74 leading businesses have signed the Vision for Literacy Business Pledge 2019, committing to tackle the UK’s literacy challenge.

As of today, shoppers and bargain hunters on eBay will have the opportunity to donate to our work, through the eBay for Charity programme!

Our Read North East campaign launched its new Redcar Early Years Partnership today with a storytelling event for children.

To celebrate the return of the classic Roy of the Rovers comic, we have teamed up with Rebellion to ask pupils write a club motto for Roy’s iconic football team, Melchester Rovers.

We have just launched a new campaign to improve literacy for young people in Hastings and St Leonards thanks to a partnership with the Department for Education’s Opportunity Area in...

We were delighted to welcome HRH The Duchess of Cornwall to Swindon on Thursday 24 January to celebrate the work being done by Swindon Stories.

2018 was our 25th birthday, and we marked the occasion by demonstrating why the need to raise literacy levels in the UK is more pressing than ever.

The latest instalment in our podcast celebrating our 25th anniversary is now live.

We launch our Christmas fundraising campaign to give disadvantaged children books of their own.

New funding from Clarks will enable schools to purchase the programme for just £100