Reading Aloud Week is an annual event, held each November, to encourage reading to young children, whether at nursery, in the library or at home. The program focuses on children of nursery and pre-school age, yet, the joy of being Read More …
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Book Prizes (Scotland)
The Bookbug Picture Book Prize and the Scottish Teenage Book Prize encourage children and young people to vote for their favourite Scottish books. The picture books are given out in the Bookbug Primary 1 Family Bag to every child in Read More …
Faktafyk (Norway)
Faktafyk is a non-fiction magazine for middle school students, which was established in 2012. The magazine is published once a year and is distributed to more than 70% of middle school students in Norway. Faktafyk contains articles, interviews and excerpts Read More …
Reading Friends (Scotland)
Scottish Book Trust is working in partnership with the Reading Agency on the delivery of the Reading Friends in Scotland. Reading Friends is a new UK-wide project which will use reading to empower, engage and connect isolated older people, including Read More …
Book searcher – Boekenzoeker (Belgium)
The Book Searcher is a website where readers between the ages of 0 and 18 find reading suggestions that suit their frame of mind or interests. The site is a joint venture between the Nederlandse Taalunie and Stichting Lezen. This Read More …
First Minister’s Reading Challenge (Scotland)
The First Minister’s Reading Challenge is for Primary 4–7 pupils and focuses on reading for pleasure and building reading cultures in schools, homes and communities across Scotland. Launched in 2016 by Scottish Book Trust and the Scottish Government, the First Read More …
Reading is Good for Health (Portugal)
Reading is Good for Health involves doctors and nurses working in health centres and paediatric hospitals in reading counselling of families with children from six months to six years. It has been launched with the sponsorship of the High Commissioner Read More …
Book Start: Books for Babies (Switzerland)
Bookstart is a nationwide project for early language education launched in 2008. Bookstart promotes the first encounter of children with books. The target group of Bookstart are children between 0 and 3 years old and their parents and adult caregivers. Read More …
Growing with the Book (Czech Republic)
The Growing with the Book campaign was launched in 2005 by Svět knihy as a response to research that showed a sharp fall in interest in book-reading among the young. The situation inspired us to search for a solution to Read More …
Reading More – aLer+2027 (Portugal)
We are currently experiencing a change in reading attitudes, embodied in new ways of reading and new social and cultural practices of literacy, implying the reader in various collaborative processes of reading and writing, print and digital. In this new Read More …