This year's Summer Reading Challenge, The Big Friendly Read, is taking place in libraries all over the UK during the summer holidays. Children have been visiting their libraries in their thousands to borrow books, collect rewards for their reading, and take part in a phizz-whizzing array of activities organised by library staff and volunteers.
1-8 October is Chatterbooks Week, the perfect time to set up a children's reading group.
Check out the Summer Reading Challenge website where children can chat, get reading recommendations and play games.
Got teenagers? Check out Reading Activists - the place where young people can get creative and get reading and writing.
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.
