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The Author’s Den at The Secret Garden of Stories: Meet Jon Mayhew and Lydia Monks
There's a month to go until The Secret Garden of Stories, The Reader Organisation's first ever Children's Literature Festival gets…

Study shows Children who have strong reading skills ‘are more intelligent by their mid-teens’
A recent study of identical twins by researchers at Edinburgh University and King's College London has been able to show…

What is the secret of The Menlove Treasure?
The Reader Organisation is excited to announce the beginning of a very special story… As part of Liverpool City of…

Summer School Sizzlers and the Calderstones Summer Fair
School may nearly be out for summer, but there's no need to be bored with our Summer School Sizzlers at…

Whizz through the Wonderful World of Children’s Literature
Children's Book Week may be coming to a close but there's always time to dive into the world of children's…

Children’s Book Week: The Reader Organisation recommends
We're in the middle of Children's Book Week 2014, an annual celebration of reading for pleasure that has been running…

The Secret Garden of Stories: The Reader Organisation’s Children’s Literature Festival
This August something very exciting can be found at Calderstones Mansion House... The Reader Organisation is proud to present our…

Featured Poem: Children’s Song by R S Thomas
As this week is Children's Book Week I chose Children's Song by R. S. Thomas for this weeks Featured Poem.…

Opportunity: Volunteer Events Assistants
The Reader Organisation can announce a new volunteering opportunity for Volunteer Events Assistants at Calderstones Mansion House, Liverpool. We are…

Featured Poem: The Little Dancers by Laurence Binyon
This week's Featured Poem is The Little Dancers by Laurence Binyon. I love the final line of this poem, 'their…

Enjoying a Book A Day
If you're a regular tweeter, you might have seen the #BookADay hashtag pop up in those trending topics since the…

Sharing literature the Little Free Library way
At The Reader Organisation we're all about sharing literature, whether it be in our weekly shared reading groups or reading…