News and Updates

As part of our ongoing work exploring texts from The Reader Bookshelf, we've asked members of our Children & Young…

The Storybarn has teamed up with our Heritage team to work on some wonderful new Welly Walks around Calderstones Park.…

‘I am the seed that grew the tree that gave the wood to make the page to fill the book…

This year in the Storybarn we've really focussed on finding books in which all the children who come to visit…

Something very strange is happening at The Storybarn this summer... some of our books have lost their stories, including one…

  The Storybarn is bringing an action-packed outdoor adventure to Calderstones Park this summer in collaboration with Walker Books, the…

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be working with Cheltenham Festivals once again as part of their Reading Teachers =…

“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you. Shout…

In the latest update from the Reading Heroes project, Hope McGarry from the Children and Young People team takes a…

The Reader Storybarn team is bringing an exciting new story-based adventure to Liverpool’s Calderstones Park this December in collaboration with…

The doors to The Reader Storybarn in Liverpool’s Calderstones Park might still be closed, but the team behind the award-winning imaginative play…

Our Head of Children and Young People, Kara, has completed her magical journey through Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel, The…