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Featured Poem: No, Thank You, John by Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti goes against the Victorian expectations of meek and delicate femininity, to deliver a bold message to a hopeful…
The Reader 69
The time has come round again to whet your appetite for some new reads, and with this quarter’s issue the…
Featured Poem: Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare
We are diving back into William Shakespeare's sonnets for this week’s Featured Poem, a story of springtime beauty and separated…
Featured Poem: Alone – Edgar Allen Poe
In Alone, Poe reflects upon a life experienced as an emotional outsider. The narrator’s experience of perceiving life and emotions…
The Reader celebrates World Book Night 2018
The Reader celebrates World Book Night with a Shared Reading group giveaway of Jo Bell's Kith. It's World Book Night and…
Featured Poem: In The Fields – Charlotte Mew
We are celebrating the joy the onset of Spring brings in this week’s featured poem, In the Fields. This dreamy…
Featured Poem: I started early – Took my Dog – Emily Dickinson
This week’s featured poem I started early – Took my Dog – describes an enchanting and evocative encounter with the Sea…
The Storybarn’s Treasure Island
WE'RE COMING BACK TO LIVERPOOL ONE... Opening Monday 9 April Suitable for children, new-born – eight and their families. From…
Featured Poem: Time Is by Henry Van Dyke
This week’s featured poem, Time Is by Henry Van Dyke, contemplates the passage of time and our relationship to it.…
Featured Poem: Sonnet 37 by William Shakespeare
For this week's Featured Poem we're going straight to the Bard himself for poetic inspiration with Sonnet 37. The sound advise…
Bringing Shared Reading to Kensington Palace
Great Shared Reading doesn’t need much in the way of surroundings: some people in a space, with chairs to sit…
Featured Poem: Blackbird by John Drinkwater
This week we turn to English poet and dramatist John Drinkwater and his charming poem Blackbird. While the Beast from the…
