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Spotlight
Spotlight is our new children's reading promotion, which we are running in collaboration with our Children's Reading Partners project, the library/publishing consortium. Spotlight is the result of an unprecedented cross-industry collaboration, drawing on the expertise of children's librarians to highlight the very best that children's publishing has to offer. And we are very grateful to everyone who has come together to make this happen.
Families
We are very aware that parents are any child's first and most enduring educators. There's plenty of research which shows how important parents are for their children's learning and development. Where parents are involved in their children's learning, children do better at school.
Schools
On this page you can find out about our work that supports schools. In many cases we support schools and libraries to work together. If you would like to find out more please get in touch.
Children's Reading Partners
Children's Reading Partners is the new partnership we are brokering between children's librarians and children's publishers.
Summer Reading Challenge
Space Hop One giant leap into libraries! For more information about Space Hop, including the full range of resources for library authorities, please click here to go to the Summer Reading Challenge Microsite. The 2010 Summer Reading Challenge - called...
Enjoying Reading
Enjoying Reading offers new solutions to help every child love reading. Enjoying Reading is an important new initiative funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families DCSF to help every child love reading. It encourages schools and libraries to work more closely together. It helps schools understand how public libraries can help them and how schools library services cane help them, as well as providing practical tools for working together.
Creative Partnerships
Creative Partnerships is the government's flagship programme that provides children and young people opportunities to do creative things.
Chatterbooks
Eight years ago with Orange we started the first ever nationally co-ordinated reading group project for children. Chatterbooks encourages children aged between four and twelve to read adventurously, become confident about talking about books and visit libraries with their families. And we have won awards for this work.
Children's Radio Reading Clubs
In an exciting partnership with the BBC, the Arts Council and three libraries we are giving young people the chance to talk about the things that matter to them. Groups of children aged eight to thirteen in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Sunderland are taught how to record interviews and put them together with scripts, raps and songs that they have written themselves.
Big Book Share
Prison punishes families as well as offenders. It can take away the vital role of a parent, often a father, in the formative years of his children's life. Reading can help to keep the family bond strong and can help an imprisoned parent to be a positive role model to his or her children.
BBC Partnership
We have a great partnership with BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7 both of which broadcast programmes on books and book related matters. We use the rich resources of these programmes to support reading groups for adults and children run in libraries. And we are using this partnership to bring radio and libraries together to run joint activities. We believe that combining the powers of the written word with the spoken word will lead to some fantastic creative opportunities.
Children
Did you know that reading for pleasure is more important to a child's educational achievement than their family's wealth or social class? A major study of reading came up with this powerful conclusion.* Did you also know that just twenty minutes spent reading with your child significantly improves his or her reading? Twenty minutes every day or twenty minutes once or twice a week - it will make a difference.