The 500 Words competition, created by Chris Evans, and now hosted by Zoe Ball on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, is one of the most successful story-writing competitions for kids in the world, and helps to get children excited about reading and writing.
See the Book Collection for Silly Squad, the Summer Reading Challenge 2020.
The Summer Reading Challenge helps get three quarters of a million children into libraries every year to keep up their reading skills and confidence. Find out much more about how to participate, and about the 2019 theme Space Chase, here.
Chatterbooks reading clubs help children build a lifelong reading habit. We estimate that almost 9,000 children belong to Chatterbooks groups, which can be run by anyone with a passion for reading. Find out more about Chatterbooks here.
Read our key information for Summer Reading Challenge coordinators
Find out how schools can get involved and benefit from the Summer Reading Challenge.
Your donations will go a long way to helping us improve children's literacy. Find out how to give here.
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.
