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.
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This year’s Summer Reading Challenge is all about sports, games, and play – keeping children's minds and bodies active over the holidays!
This activity sheet enables you to keep a record of the books you’re enjoying together and will help to spark conversations around reading with family and… read more
A toolkit to support libraries to get involved in Loneliness Awareness Week, 12-18 June 2023.
The toolkit provides:
• key facts on loneliness
• resources for promoting Reading Well, Reading Friends, Mood-boosting Books and Reading Groups for Everyone
• library display and activity ideas
•… read more
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 a locked resource for library authorities participating in the Summer Reading Challenge 2023. Libraries should contact their local Summer… read more
Authors and illustrators featured in the Summer Reading Challenge 'Ready, Set, Read!' Book Collection have provided us with their availability for library events over the summer.
Where possible, authors have indicated which regions they'd be able to travel to, dates they would be available… read more
Who would you like to go to the library with?
Children can get creative with this A4 invitation.
Download and print the invitation, and encourage children to invite whoever they want to come along with them to the library with a drawing and colouring in activity.
Please note, this is the… read more
Who would you like to go to the library with?
Children can get creative with this A4 invitation.
Download and print the invitation, and encourage children to invite whoever they want to come along with them to the library with a drawing and colouring in activity. read more
If you would like to begin talking about Ready, Set, Read! on your social media channels, you can download initial social assets and a web banner here. These assets are sized for Facebook, Instagram, Instagram Stories and Twitter.
*This is a locked resource for library authorities… read more
You’ve read your book and come together with your group to discuss it, but where do you begin? Sometimes it can be difficult to know what to talk about first, so these handy questions will help to break the ice and get the conversation flowing.
Looking to start a reading group? You can also… read more
In THE FATHER, Hopkins plays the eponymous role of a mischievous and highly independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman). Yet, such help has become essential following Anne’s decision to move to Paris with her partner. As Anne’s father tries to… read more