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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...View details about Read Manchester celebrates World Book Day with an award-winning author visit and exciting book donations -
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Since the first lockdown started in March, Read Manchester has gifted more than 22,000 books and magazines to help keep children readingView details about Read Manchester set to donate 30,000 books by the end of the year -
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Christmas crafts with Hungry Little Minds and Manchester Art GalleryView details about Christmas crafts with Hungry Little Minds and Manchester Art Gallery -
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On Saturday, Read Manchester and Manchester Art Gallery will be launching their brand new Hungry Little Minds digital campaign to help parents in Manchester turn the everyday...View details about New digital campaign to get families chatting, playing and reading together to launch in Manchester -
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A free book is to be given to every child leaving primary school in Manchester this July as part of a city-wide first to help prepare them for starting high school in September.View details about Free book for every primary school leaver to help them Bee Ready for secondary school -
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Moto in the Community hosted primary school children from across Rochdale and Bury at a special event today to celebrate World Book Day.View details about We celebrated World Book Day with our new partner Moto and primary students -
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This February half term families in Manchester are invited to attend the first Children’s Football Writing Festival at the National Football Museum.View details about The first ever Children's Football Writing Festival to kick off at the National Football Museum in Manchester -
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Over summer 2019, 8,940 children in Manchester joined the Summer Reading Challenge, with 845 children becoming new library members in order to take part. Sixty nine percent of those...View details about Out of this world: 8,940 children joined our Summer Reading Challenge -
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Manchester Libraries held 22 Rhyme Time sessions on empathy for pre-school children across the city.View details about Read Manchester celebrates Empathy Day -
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Read Manchester has launched a multilingual community poem at Manchester Central LibraryView details about Made in Manchester: Manchester launches multilingual community poem -
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Read Manchester is supporting Gorton Imagination Library as it celebrates 50 years of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar with local families.View details about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is making a difference to families in Manchester -
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Read Manchester has teamed up with charity Read for Good to host the city’s first-ever mass Readathon, which will bring the power of stories to Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.View details about Manchester schools unite in city's first mass Readathon -
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We are delighted to unveil the winners of the Read Manchester ‘Bee a Reader’ creative writing competition.View details about Winners of the Bee a Reader creative writing competition are announced -
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Representatives from the Read Manchester campaign have won a prize at this year's Manchester City Council Awards for Excellence.View details about Read Manchester scoops Manchester City Council Award for Excellence -
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The Read Manchester campaign from Manchester City Council and the National Literacy Trust has contributed to another successful year of the Summer Reading Challenge.View details about A successful summer of reading in Manchester -
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As Read Manchester’s new Take 10 initiative launched on Wednesday 10 October, the Lord Mayor joined an event at Manchester Central Library with young people from The Writing Squad.View details about Manchester’s Writing Squad supports Take 10 with reading-themed pieces -
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A partnership between Mr Men Little Miss, Haliborange and Read Manchester has seen more than 2,600 Mr Men Little Miss books given out for free to families in Manchester.View details about Thousands of Mr Men books given away for free in Manchester