27 June 2023
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WELSH Children's Certificates - Ready, Set, Read!
Download these Welsh-language certificates to reward children taking part in the Summer Reading Challenge 2023 and recognise the hard work of your summer volunteers. This folder includes: - Standard certificate - Mini Challenge certificate - Special achievement certificate - Schools achievement certificate (including an...
26 June 2023
Friendship Never Ends - digital resources
‘Sheppard brilliantly captures all the awkwardness and insecurities of being in your early teens in this hopeful, heart-filled paean to friendship and girlhood.’ Observer When you’re figuring it all out, there are some friendships that mean the most. Meet Sunita, Gifty, Dawn...
24 June 2023
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Ready, Set, Read! - Library Evaluation Form
Download the Library Evaluation Form and Guidance Documents for Read, Set, Read! – Summer Reading Challenge 2023. All library authorities running the Summer Reading Challenge are required to complete this evaluation form. Please note: This is the only library evaluation form...
23 June 2023
The Night Animals by Sarah Ann Juckes - digital resources
Uncover the ghost animals within in this moving and uplifting story about finding help where you need it, from the highly acclaimed author and illustrator of The Hunt for the Nightingale. Nora’s mum has good days and bad days, but the...
22 June 2023
Website Guide for summerreadingchallenge.org.uk
If you’re using our children’s website summerreadingchallenge.org.uk and need some tips on how to use it, download this handy guide which explains how to sign up and how to take part in the Challenge online. This guide also includes useful...
21 June 2023
Teachers' Reading Challenge Comms Toolkit
School and library staff, as well as our partner organisations, can use this toolkit as guidance to promoting the Teachers’ Reading Challenge.
20 June 2023
Book Discussion Prompts: Ready, Set, Read!
These book discussion prompts can be used to help children talk about their Summer Reading Challenge books with library staff, volunteers, teachers or at home. Illustrations by Loretta Schaeur and © The Reading Agency 2023
20 June 2023
Ollie's Activity Challenge Card: Ready, Set, Read!
Bringing our superstar team to life, this set of six amazing activity challenge cards have been created by our creative partner for 2023, the Youth Sport Trust. You can practise your balancing skills and even create your own skate park balance...
20 June 2023
Sophia's Activity Challenge Card: Ready, Set, Read!
Bringing our superstar team to life, this set of six amazing activity challenge cards have been created by our creative partner for 2023, the Youth Sport Trust. Check out Sophia’s activity card below for active dice and story games. There’s a...
20 June 2023
Naveen's Activity Challenge Card: Ready, Set, Read!
Bringing our superstar team to life, this set of six amazing activity challenge cards have been created by our creative partner for 2023, the Youth Sport Trust. Get your creative cap on and take on the active challenges in Naveen and...
20 June 2023
Noah's Activity Challenge Card: Ready, Set, Read!
Bringing our superstar team to life, this set of six amazing activity challenge cards have been created by our creative partner for 2023, the Youth Sport Trust. Practise your aim with the fun target challenges on Noah’s activity card. There’s a...
20 June 2023
Alesha's Activity Challenge Card: Ready, Set, Read!
Bringing our superstar team to life, this set of six amazing activity challenge cards have been created by our creative partner for 2023, the Youth Sport Trust. Have a go with Alesha and Dynamo and see how your fancy footwork matches...
20 June 2023
Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Ruling the World - teaching resources, activities and book trailer
Welcome to Loki’s THIRD doodle-packed diary in the number one best-selling series! When Heimdall and Hyrrokkin abandon their “children” to go on holiday, Odin sends Baldur – Thor’s half-brother and god of making Loki look bad – to babysit. As Baldur and...
20 June 2023
Naomi's Activity Challenge Card: Ready, Set, Read!
Bringing our superstar team to life, this set of six amazing activity challenge cards have been created by our creative partner for 2023, the Youth Sport Trust. Practise your own co-ordination with the fun dance moves on Naomi’s activity challenge card....
20 June 2023
Lily Grim – teaching resources and activity
The city of Undone is a dark and dangerous place to live, especially if you’re an Other… Lily Grim’s life is a mystery. She has lived with her guardian Gabriel, in their rundown second-hand shop in the City of Undone, for as...
20 June 2023
Lost on Gibbon Island – activity pack and teaching resources
A shipwrecked girl. A lost baby gibbon. An impossible journey home. ‘If you’re reading this, hopefully you’ve come to rescue me. My name is Lark Taylor, and I’ve been shipwrecked on an island. The last mainland I was on was Cambodia,...
19 June 2023
Publisher Spotlight: Vintage Crime
Vintage Crime would like to introduce you to your next crime fiction obsession! We are giving away packs of six thrilling murder mysteries, from bestselling and award-winning crime authors including Jo Nesbo, Susan Hill, Denise Mina and Abir Mukherjee. Each...
19 June 2023
Sticker Dolly Dressing Activity Pack
Enter a magical world where unicorns with rainbow manes gallop across the sky, meet a woodland fairy princess, gaze at the Northern lights and rest in a crystal cave. Use the stickers to adorn the unicorns with headdresses and garlands,...
16 June 2023
The Reading Agency’s June booklist for Adults – Sports & Games
The Summer Reading Challenge launches soon and this year we’re teaming up with children’s charity, the Youth Sport Trust, for Ready, Set, Read!, focused on reading, sport and play. To help adults join in with all of the fun, we...
16 June 2023
Dawnlands by Phillipa Gregory - digital assets
In a divided country, power and loyalty conquer all… Discover the new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides. A compelling and powerful story of political intrigue and personal ambition, set between the...
15 June 2023
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WELSH Comments Cards: Ready, Set, Read!
You can use these comment cards to collect feedback on the Summer Reading Challenge. This resource contains two files: comment cards for children, and comment cards for parents/carers. Please note, this is the Welsh-language version of this resource. Please note: this is a...
15 June 2023
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WELSH Name Tags: Ready, Set, Read!
Librarians can download these Ready, Set, Read! name tags to use for the Summer Reading Challenge 2023! This resource contains name tag templates in colour and in black & white. Please note, this is the Welsh-language version of this resource. Please...
15 June 2023
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WELSH Reader Review Bookmarks: Ready, Set, Read!
Children can choose a character and use these bookmarks to review their Summer Reading Challenge reads! Available in colour and black and white options. Please note, this is the Welsh-language version of this resource. See the link below for the English-language version. Please...
15 June 2023
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WELSH: Recommend to a Friend Bookmarks - Ready, Set, Read!
Children taking part in the Summer Reading Challenge can colour in these 2 bookmarks and fill them out to recommend books to friends. Please note, this is the Welsh-language version of this resource. See the link below for the English-language version. Please...
15 June 2023
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WELSH: Treasure Hunt Activity Sheet - Ready, Set, Read!
This activity sheet pairs with the Ready, Set, Read! treasure hunt character cards. Libraries can download this sheet in colour and in black & white by clicking on the link below. Please note, this is the Welsh-language version of this resource....
15 June 2023
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WELSH Printable Treasure Hunt Characters: Ready, Set, Read!
Libraries can download these printable treasure hunt character cards to use in ‘Ready, Set, Read!’ activities! A matching activity sheet for children is available via the link below. Please note, this is the Welsh-language version of this resource. See the link below...
15 June 2023
Teachers' Reading Challenge Promotional Assets
School and library staff, as well as our partner organisations, can use these assets to promote the 2023 Teachers’ Reading Challenge on social media and in newsletters.
14 June 2023
The Stories Grandma Forgot (And How I Found Them) by Nadine Aisha Jassat - digital postcard and activity sheets
From acclaimed poet Nadine Aisha Jassat comes a captivating mystery about memory loss, identity, and the unbreakable bond between grandmother and granddaughter. A love letter to libraries and the safe space they offer, this story is perfect for readers aged...
14 June 2023
How to Train Your Dragon turns 20th anniversary - activity pack
Can you believe the classic How to Train Your Dragon turns 20 this year? In celebration of this milestone, there is special commemorative edition of book one available this June, which includes a brand new short story by Cressida Cowell,...
14 June 2023
Toto the Ninja Cat and the Mystery Jewel Thief - Activity Packs
Toto the cat and her brother Silver live footloose and fancy-free in a townhouse in London. Toto is almost totally blind, and learned to trust her senses from a ninja cat-master who taught her back in Italy where they were...
