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Nominations for authors who have made an outstanding contribution to raising literacy levels in the UK this year are now open.

A list of Blackpool’s top 100 children’s books has been published to encourage pupils across the resort to try new books voted for by their peers.

Today, the shortlists for the Telegraph Sports Book Awards categories have been announced, including the brand new Children’s Sports Book of the Year category in partnership with...

The Sun’s 50th anniversary charity grant scheme is enabling our Young Readers Programme to get books into the hands of 1,000 children across Tyne and Wear, supported by the Greggs...

We’re working with a group of magazine publishers who are helping us distribute over 30,000 magazines for all ages across 11 of our Literacy Hubs.

We've teamed up with Premier League Primary Stars and children’s author Dan Freedman to bring children a week-long series of free football themed reading and writing challenges.

We team up with Mayor’s Fund for London and HarperCollins to gift 9,000 brand new children’s books to London families alongside their food parcels.

Bloomsbury is donating thousands of copies of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to children in Years 4, 5 and 6 across our Literacy Hubs.

To support Year 6 teachers who are preparing to welcome their classes back to school next month, we have brought together our exciting reading, writing, wellbeing and skill building...

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, our partner KPMG is donating Instant Libraries to 50 primary schools.

We’ve teamed up with Morrisons and our publishing partners to donate more than 175,000 brand new children’s books to families across the UK who are relying on food banks during this...

In response to school closures, we've launched Zone In, a free online platform for young adult learners aged 13+.

We're thrilled to be exclusively hosting Katherine Rundell’s new collection of stories, poems and illustrations from more than 110 children’s writers and illustrators to...

Throughout the COVID-19 period, we are offering Skills Academy to all secondary schools for free and we’re also opening it up to families to enjoy together for the first time.

Our friends at Touch-type Read and Spell are offering free online literacy resources to families of NHS workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as discounts for schools and...

We’ve teamed up with super children’s authors Greg James and Chris Smith to launch a new ‘Author of the week’ series of exclusive videos, activities and free digital books for...

In response to school closures, we have today launched our brand new Family Zone.

Our annual Where’s Wally? fun run saw more than 600 runners don their red and white stripes at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London to raise money for the charity.

Our research was used in the Budget announcement that tax on e-books will be abolished.

We are calling on the public to donate to our new Crowdfunder campaign to bring books to disadvantaged children in Croydon.