08 June 2019
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Reading Friends Editable Poster, Northern Ireland
An editable poster for projects in Northern Ireland. Please use Adobe Acrobat Reader to edit this poster.
08 June 2019
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Reading Friends Editable Leaflet, Northern Ireland
An editable Reading Friends leaflet for Northern Ireland. Please use Adobe Acrobat Reader to edit.
07 June 2019
I will not be erased by gal-dem
Fourteen joyous, funny and life-affirming essays from gal-dem’s talented writers gal-dem, the award-winning online and print magazine, is created by women and non-binary people of colour. In this thought-provoking and moving collection of fourteen essays, gal-dem’s writers use raw material from...
06 June 2019
Reading Friends Four Stories Booklet
A booklet featuring the four stories highlighted in our film ‘Yarn, Natter, Blether’.
06 June 2019
June 2019 Children's and Young People booklist - Kablam! (graphic novels and comics)
We absolutely love these comics and graphic novels that our team have selected for this month’s booklist Kablam! London Film & Comic Con takes place in July so we hope that this list can help to build up excitement.
05 June 2019
Changemaker Reads
To celebrate National Reading Group Day on 15 June, we asked reading groups which books inspire them to change the world. Tackling themes of identity, discrimination and equality, these are some of the books that make you want to make...
01 June 2019
Funny Books activity pack
In this Funny Books activity pack we are celebrating those wacky and hilarious books that make your sides split with laughter! This pack is bursting with activities guaranteed to make you chuckle, including word searches, inventing your own marvelous medicine,...
31 May 2019
Health Information Week toolkit 2019
A library toolkit containing ideas for Reading Well displays, events and online and social media activity around Health Information Week 2019 (1-7 July).
31 May 2019
Reading Well evaluation poster 2018-19
A downloadable A4 poster for promoting the online surveys for the Reading Well evaluation 2018-19. To be printed and displayed in libraries.
29 May 2019
Boot by Shane Hegarty - Teachers' notes
When toy robot, Boot, wakes up at a scrapyard, it has no idea how it got there and why it isn’t with its owner, Beth. It only has two and a half glitchy memories, but it knows it was loved,...
29 May 2019
Evie and the Animals by Matt Haig - Activity pack
A talent that can let her HEAR the thoughts of an elephant, and make friends with a dog and a sparrow. The only problem is, this talent is dangerous. VERY dangerous. That’s what her dad says. So when she frees the school...
29 May 2019
DK Science Booklet - Activity pack
DK publishes a wide range of books for KS1, KS2 and beyond to get children excited about science and engineering. In this booklet, DK pulled together a selection of activities which can easily be recreated in your classroom – or, for...
29 May 2019
The Secret Starling by Judith Eagle - activity sheets
Faber and Faber Children’s have created activity sheets based around The Secret Starling. More about the book Clara has lived a life of solitude, home schooled under her mean uncle’s strict regime . . . until now! The day that Uncle abandons Clara,...
24 May 2019
The Lost Man by Jane Harper Extract
Read an extract from the gripping new novel from the author of the Sunday Times top ten bestsellers, The Dry and Force of Nature.
16 May 2019
HarperCollins Spring Storytime Packs
HarperCollins Children’s Books are celebrating the arrival of Spring with a gorgeous pack of picture books and activities for little ones featuring eggs, bunnies and tadpoles from an array of amazing picture book creators! Follow Tad, the littlest almost-a-frog in the...
14 May 2019
David Walliams Chatterbooks Pack
Since the publication of his first novel, The Boy in the Dress (2008), illustrated by the iconic Sir Quentin Blake, David Walliams has celebrated more than ten years of unprecedented growth with global sales exceeding 30 million copies, and his...
14 May 2019
Side-splitting stories for children booklist - middle grade books
This month we have created a booklist of our favourite side-splitting stories that will have children laughing loudly! There are plenty of chapters that’ll make them chortle and sentences that will have you in stitches. Here are 15 of our absolute...
14 May 2019
Side-splitting stories for children booklist - picture books
This month we have created a booklist of our favourite side-splitting stories that will have children laughing loudly! There are plenty of chapters that’ll make them chortle and sentences that will have you in stitches. Here are 12 of our absolute...
14 May 2019
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Reading Friends welcome guide for one-to-one participants
A brief information sheet to give to Reading Friends participants receiving one-to-one visits.
14 May 2019
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Reading Friends 'why volunteer?' information sheet
A quick information sheet highlighting the benefits of volunteering with Reading Friends.
13 May 2019
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Reading Friends Volunteer Recruitment Poster
An editable poster to advertise for volunteer vacancies. Please use Adobe Acrobat Reader to edit this poster.
10 May 2019
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Reading Friends volunteer agreement template
Template that clearly sets out expectations and boundaries for volunteers. Can include local information. Please use Adobe Acrobat Reader to edit.
10 May 2019
Reading Friends Yarn, Natter, Blether
Watch our film Yarn, Natter, Blether to discover four stories from Reading Friends across the UK. Watch video
10 May 2019
Side-splitting Stories
This month we’re bringing you chapters to make you chortle and sentences that will have you in stitches. Including novels, essays and poetry, these books will have you laughing all day long.
08 May 2019
The Handmaid's Tale Reading Guide
A reading guide to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against him; and the 2017 release of...
08 May 2019
National Reading Group Day 2019 - logo
This year, National Reading Group Day will take place on Saturday 15 June, the start of Independent Book Week. We have a downloadable logo that you can use on your materials. Just click on the link below to download.
08 May 2019
National Reading Group Day 2019 - poster
This year, National Reading Group Day will take place on Saturday 15 June, the start of Independent Book Week. We have a downloadable poster that you can use in your library. Just click on the link below to download.
07 May 2019
The Silence of the Girls Readers' Guide
Download a free readers’ guide for The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, one of the shortlisted books for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.
07 May 2019
Ordinary People Readers' Guide
Download a free readers’ guide for Ordinary People by Diana Evans, one of the shortlisted books for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.
07 May 2019
The Sister, the Serial Killer Readers' Guide
Download a free readers’ guide for My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, one of the shortlisted books for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.
