This month our booklist is about books that immerse a reader in an environment, where the setting plays an important part to the plot or shows the beauty of nature. We’ve picked some brilliant poetry, picture books, non-fiction and chapter books that celebrate the great outdoors.
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June is Pride Month, so it is the perfect time to share our favourite LGBTQ+ positive books for children and young people. These books highlight family dynamics and stories to help develop the values of acceptance and kindness towards themselves and others, regardless of identity.
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This toolkit contains ideas and resources for continuing with Reading Ahead in prison settings responding to the current lockdown during Covid-19.
This is a working document and will be updated as more resources become available. Do get in touch if you have any you'd like us to promote. read more
This toolkit contains ideas and resources for continuing with Reading Ahead despite closures of public libraries, colleges and workplaces during Covid-19.
This is a working document and will be updated as more resources become available. Do get in touch if you have any you'd like us to promote. read more
This activity sheet has been designed for use alongside reading the Quick Reads version of Adam Kay's This Is Going To Hurt. It provides inspiration and a framework for starting a diary. read more
Here you can access The Reading Agency at home. You'll find ideas, activities and challenges from across our programmes to entertain and educate yourself, your family or those you are teaching remotely.
The activities will be refreshed every couple of weeks and we have The Reading Agency… read more
Walker Books have an exciting creative writing challenge called THE MONSTER CHALLENGE.
‘Stories are important. Stories can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.’
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
Are you a young person with a passion for telling stories? Do you feel… read more