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Dermot supports the Summer Reading Challenge

Watch Dermot O'Leary explain why he supports Animal Agents, the Summer Reading Challenge 2017.

Animal Agents: now at your local library

Animal Agents, the Summer Reading Challenge 2017 launches in libraries across England and Wales on Saturday 15 July.

Summer Reading Challenge

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Resources for library staff

Resources for schools

Running children's reading clubs

Summer Reading Challenge

Children's reading can 'dip' during the long holidays. The Summer Reading Challenge helps get three quarters of a million children into libraries to keep up their reading skills.

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Chatterbooks reading clubs help children build a lifelong reading habit.

Resources for library staff

These resources are available to library staff who are running the Summer Reading Challenge.

Resources for schools

Ensure your pupils return in the autumn term ready for a great start by promoting the Summer Reading Challenge in your school.

Running children's reading clubs

Buy resources and get free support to help you run children's reading groups, developed using the expertise of librarians and teachers.

Find a reading group

Looking for a reading group for your child or yourself? Find one here.

Get involved with the

Check out the Summer Reading Challenge website where children can chat, get reading recommendations and play games.

See our work with young people

Find out more about Reading Hack, Reading Ahead and Reading Well for young people

Reading for pleasure is more important to children’s successes than education or social class. The Summer Reading Challenge gets three quarters of a million children into libraries to keep up their reading skills and confidence during the long holidays while Chatterbooks reading groups help build a lifelong reading habit. Because everything changes when we read.

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Dermot supports the Summer Reading Challenge

Animal Agents: now at your local library

Summer Reading Challenge

Chatterbooks

Resources for library staff

Resources for schools

Running children's reading clubs

Summer Reading Challenge

Chatterbooks

Resources for library staff

Resources for schools

Running children's reading clubs

Find a reading group

Get involved with the

See our work with young people

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