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Today we launched a project to look the provision and impact of primary school libraries, pre, during and post COVID-19, which will seek to imagine what the future of primary school...

We are delighted to support Oscar’s Book Prize 2021, the annual celebration of the best in books for under-fives and the shortlist for this year’s prize has been revealed, following...

If you have questions about the Where's Wally? Weekender in Peterborough, you might find the answers right here

This year, our annual Talk To Your Baby conference focused on wellbeing. Here are some highlights from the conference.

We take stock of what we achieved in partnership with the brilliant World Book Day charity to spread the joy of reading with children and families.

In November, we teamed up with Bupa Foundation to gift 5,000 primary schools 15,000 paperback copies of Bloomsbury’s The Book of Hopes.Each school had the exclusive chance to enter...

Over the weekend, over 1,300 runners took on our annual Where’s Wally? fun run virtually and raised over £60,000 for the National Literacy Trust!

We were delighted to welcome over 140 delegates to the conference this year. Here’s some of the highlights.

Nathan Bryon, will become the first ambassador for Puffin World of Stories this year, helping us to highlight the importance of school libraries and diversity in schools’ reading...

83 leading businesses sign up to the 2021 Vision for Literacy Business Pledge.

To mark International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the great work of our Words for Work: Women in Leadership programme which we run in partnership with Lancôme and our Young...

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 would love to see you at our first ever online Gala Night on Thursday 25 March.

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...