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In November, we teamed up with Bupa Foundation to gift 5,000 primary schools 15,000 paperback copies of Bloomsbury’s The Book of Hopes.Each school had the exclusive chance to enter...View details about We announce the 15 wonderful winners of our Scrapbook of Hopes competition -
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Over the weekend, over 1,300 runners took on our annual Where’s Wally? fun run virtually and raised over £60,000 for the National Literacy Trust!View details about Our Where’s Wally? fun run went virtual in 2021 and raised a record amount of money! -
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Nathan Bryon, will become the first ambassador for Puffin World of Stories this year, helping us to highlight the importance of school libraries and diversity in schools’ reading...View details about Nathan Bryon appointed as first annual Puffin World of Stories ambassador -
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83 leading businesses sign up to the 2021 Vision for Literacy Business Pledge.View details about 2021 Vision for Literacy Business Pledge launched -
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Author and illustrator of the best-selling How to Train Your Dragon books series, Cressida Cowell, virtually visited schools for an exciting Q&A on World Book Day, as part of...View details about Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell visits 73 schools for Connecting Stories -
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We would love to see you at our first ever online Gala Night on Thursday 25 March.View details about Join us for the National Literacy Trust Virtual Gala Night -
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We teamed up with the Morrisons Foundation to give pupils in schools throughout England, Scotland and Wales a bundle of new books for their school library in celebration of World...View details about We teamed up with Morrisons Foundation to encourage 125,000 children from local communities to discover a love of reading this World Book Day -
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Read Manchester celebrates with a virtual visit from Waterstones Children’s Laureate and award-winning author, Cressida Cowell, and bumper book donations to schools and children...View details about Read Manchester celebrates World Book Day with an award-winning author visit and exciting book donations -
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This World Book Day, the National Literacy Trust and Oak National Academy have come together to create a virtual celebration of books and reading featuring special guest Her Royal...View details about We team up with World Book Day to celebrate reading for pleasure with special guest HRH The Duchess of Cornwall -
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Schools in Islington are invited to exciting author events this week to mark new initiative Get Islington Reading. Authors Sita Brahmachari and Tom McLaughlin will each host...View details about Celebrations planned to Get Islington Reading for World Book Day -
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Award-winning comedian, actor and writer, Matt Lucas, delighted children from 33 schools across our 14 local areas with a fun-filled virtual visit as part of our Connecting Stories...View details about Matt Lucas delights children with a virtual visit to 33 schools -
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We’re so excited to be working with Bupa Foundation to launch Well Ahead, our new platform encouraging young people to use creative writing as a way to process events from the wider...View details about We launch creative writing and wellbeing platform Well Ahead -
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Our prison reading programme, Books Unlocked, has just announced its first book list for 2021.View details about We unveil 2021 Books Unlocked reading list -
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We’re delighted to announce a new three-year partnership with Hachette UK in which we will co-create programmes to help children, young people and adults in disadvantaged...View details about We announce new three year partnership with Hachette UK -
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This Children’s Mental Health Week, we are supporting children’s mental health charity Place2Be and their mission to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young...View details about This Children’s Mental Health Week, we are supporting Place2Be and their mission to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health -
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We are delighted to announce that 18 publishers and 32 authors are involved in our Connecting Stories campaign.View details about Brilliant publishers and authors join our Connecting Stories campaign -
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Our patron, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall, has launched an Instagram-based book club called The Reading RoomView details about We are excited to support HRH The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room as Season One launches