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Storyhunter Clumsy the Clown smiles and reads a book
Children and Young People

Storyhunters Hunted: Clumsy the Clown

We're making it our mission to track down all of our wonderful Storyhunters and find out a little more about…

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Children and Young People

The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf

Our last deep dive into the 2023/24 Children and Young People's Reader Bookshelf is a review of Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick…

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Literature

March’s Stories and Poems

March’s stories, extracts and poems have been chosen on the theme ‘Moving on’, which perhaps feels especially relevant as we…

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Literature

February’s Stories and Poems

February’s selection of stories, extracts and poems have been chosen on the theme of ‘Making connections’. We spend so much…

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Shared Reading
Reader Stories

“It’s been a huge part of my recovery.” – A Reader Story from Damien John Kelly House

In September 2021, a group of men from Damien John Kelly House – an abstinence-based recovery living centre for adult…

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Courage Out Loud
Children and Young People

The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf

We're continuing to delve into the Children and Young People's Reader Bookshelf with a review of Joseph Coelho's 25 Poems of Power…

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Reader Stories

“It’s completely accessible to everybody” – Reader Stories from Bradbury Fields

Bradbury Fields is a charity in Liverpool which works with blind and partially sighted people, and The Reader deliver a…

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Fairy Liquid
Children and Young People

Storyhunters Hunted: Fairy Liquid

We're making it our mission to track down all of our wonderful Storyhunters and find out a little more about…

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Literature

January’s Monthly Stories and Poems

Settling into a new year can often come with lots of feelings and emotions – excitement about new opportunities, along…

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Little Princess
Children and Young People

The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf

We're continuing to delve into the Children and Young People's Reader Bookshelf with a review of Frances Hodgson Burnett's  The Little…

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Three women laughing in a Shared Reading group
Shared Reading

New funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to support the expansion of Shared Reading across mental health settings

We're delighted to have been awarded £120,000 by The National Lottery Community Fund to support work over the next three…

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Cosy coffee cup in bed with a book and fairy lights
Literature

December’s Monthly Stories and Poems

The end of the calendar year is often a busy time, but also a time where we reflect on what…

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