Find out more about the stories shortlisted for 500 Words, the BBC's brilliant creative writing competition for 5-13 year olds. We were so excited to be a part of the competition. reading around 5,000 of the best stories and helping the BBC decide which stories go through to the final.
We're thrilled to announce this year's book collection for Animal Agents, the Summer Reading Challenge 2017.
Check out the Summer Reading Challenge website where children can chat, get reading recommendations and play games.
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.
