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How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell - Event Pack

Pack of creative activities to help host How to Train Your Dragon themed events. Activities include: design a dragon, make your ow crown, write like a Viking, gruesome Viking facts, party games and costume ideas. read more

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Story Garden - digital promotion images

These digital promotion images have been designed for online and social media use to support your online promotion of the 2025 Summer Reading Challenge.

This is a locked resource for library authorities participating in the Summer Reading Challenge 2025. Libraries should contact their local… read more

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Images of key materials: Story Garden

Download images of key Story Garden materials. These can be used in your promotional materials and communications.

Please ensure that, in your communications with children and families, you only include images of materials that will be on offer at your library this year. If you are unsure,… read more

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Printable invitation (Wales) – Story Garden

Download this printable invitation for Story Garden in Wales.

Please note: the front and back of the invitation are supplied as two separate pages in one PDF. You will need to print the invitations double-sided.

This is a locked resource for library authorities participating in the Summer… read more

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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr - discussion guide

Discover the uplifting and completely heartwarming debut novel from Samuel Burr,The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers.

Click download to get a copy of the discussion guide.

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Clayton Stumper is an enigma.

He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your… read more

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Spring: The Story of a Season by Michael Morpurgo - digital resources

Celebrate National Hedgerow Week from 5 – 11 May 2025 with Spring by Michael Morpurgo, in partnership with Hodder Press and The Tree Council.

Michael Morpurgo has lived on a farm deep in rural Devon for more than forty years. In Spring, he observes the season unfold around him, as fragile… read more

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Printable invitation (Scotland) – Story Garden

Download this printable invitation for Story Garden in Scotland.

Please note: the front and back of the invitation are supplied as two separate pages in one PDF. You will need to print the invitations double-sided.

This is a locked resource for library authorities participating in the… read more

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Printable invitation (England) – Story Garden

Download this printable invitation for Story Garden in England.

Please note: the front and back of the invitation are supplied as two separate pages in one PDF. You will need to print the invitations double-sided.

This is a locked resource for library authorities participating in the Summer… read more

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That's not my... Zoo by Fiona Watt - Activity sheets

Discover the fun of the zoo in That's not my… Zoo the sound-book addition to the bestselling That's not my… series.

Turn the pages to explore the zoo in and meet a monkey, an elephant, a tiger and a parrot in this larger format touchy-feely book. Press the sound button on the final… read more

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Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Every morning at around half past ten, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters – to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their… read more

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