• Bookstart - nationwide book gifting programme working with libraries and health services
• Children's centres and family reading - what children's centres nationwide can do, including partnership with libraries
• Stoke Speaks Out to families - a project to address early language problems and encourage family reading
• Story sack success, Boston - story sacks incorporated in the curriculum of a nursery school
• Sure Start Kennington, Lambeth, London - partnership with libraries brings book characters to life
• Sure Start Myatt's Field Angell Town, Lambeth, London - literacy development together with health workers, libraries and a hostel for teenage mums
• Sure Start Dungiven and Limavady, Northern Ireland - supporting family reading with Chatter Packs
• Bedtime Wriggly Readers, Loughborough - library workers put on their PJs for storytime with babies and toddlers
• Supporting home reading in Midlothian with PEEP - what goes on at a PEEP group for young children and their parents
• Mosscare 'reads' the way forward, Manchester - a housing association in partnership with Sure Start
• North Huyton Sure Start, Knowsley - partnership with libraries, football clubs and Bookstart to reach out to dads (from the Reading Champions pages)
• The Question Game - a game used in family learning sessions to help parents and children talk about books
• Share books and talk together - a resource for parents produced jointly by Talk To Your Baby and Bookstart
• Southwark libraries - partnerships in action - special cards for foster carers and home-educated children, plus a partnership with Sure Start children's centres
• TinyTalk - baby signing organisation launches an early literacy skills curriculum and signed book time
• First Steps children's centre and 'A Winter's Tale', Westminster - involving parents in a winter-themed reading and writing project

See also the Children's centres case studies

More information on early years from the NLT site