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The Unforgotten Coat shortlisted in Costa Book Awards
Absolutely fantastic news - The Unforgotten Coat, the book written exclusively for The Reader Organisation for Our Read 2011 by…

Regular reading gives a boost to exam results
The various benefits of making time for reading amongst parents and children have been raised before - most recently, pointing…

A Host of Dashing Santas
For the first time ever The Reader Organisation will be undergoing the 5K Liverpool Santa Dash, raising money for the…

Frank Cottrell Boyce at the Southbank Centre
Frank Cottrell Boyce will bring his story of a Bootle schoolgirl and her friendship with two Mongolian brothers to the heart of London…

Recommended Reads: The Midnight Zoo
Today's Recommended Read comes from one of our Get Into Reading Project Workers, who has been reading a children's novel…

Reader Fever: Halloween Edition
From Anna Fleming, Get Into Reading Project Worker Fancy a fright this Halloween? The new issue of Reader Fever, The…

UK ranks low on the reading for pleasure scale
As a nation, the United Kingdom could come top (or at least very near the top) of many tables, lists…

A New Chapter – Liverpool Hope University and The Reader Organisation
On 3rd October The Reader Organisation started what is sure to be a thrilling and innovative relationship with Liverpool Hope…

Every Reader Helps
Well 'every reader helps' was the title of the blog post which we decided to go with, but in all…

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Our Read author Frank Cottrell Boyce's new book is out today - the first in his new series of books about the…

The Unforgotten Coat Makes a Splash in America
Thanks to this year's Our Read book giveaway, tens of thousands of people in the UK and beyond have read and…

Children’s books rule the roost…and offer a retreat to grown-up readers
This week (from October 3rd-9th) is Children’s Book Week, an annual event aimed at encouraging and celebrating reading for pleasure…