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Recycling Johnson – Onwards and Upwards

Compared with the 91 miles Phil and Sheena have already notched up on their Scottish cycle, today’s meagre distance of…

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Recycling Johnson – Day Two

Having already covered 49 miles in their first 24 hours, day two of Recycling Johnson will see Phil and Sheena…

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Children and Young People

Michael Morpurgo Calls for Passion in Getting Children to Read

One of the nation's most popular children's authors, Michael Morpurgo, wrote a column in the London Evening Standard on Friday,…

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Recycling Johnson…

...And they’re off! Today marks the beginning of Phil and Sheena Davies’s mammoth cycle around the Highlands and Islands of…

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Prof Maryanne Wolf at The Reader Organisation’s Conference

In the first of a series of short videos from our Reading for Wellbeing Conference on 17th May, here are…

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Shared Reading

Read to Lead – Two Special Courses

We are delighted to announce two new Read to Lead courses with a difference. Read to Lead: Reading with Young…

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Children and Young People

Libraries I Have Known

Published on behalf of Emily Lezzeri, Get Into Reading South West Project Worker Libraries: quiet, calm and relaxing? My earliest…

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Perseverance, Perseverance, Perseverance

Tasked with publicising Recycling Johnson, I’ve been trawling Dr. Johnson’s collected works in an attempt to find a phrase, passage…

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Children and Young People

Book Review: ‘Tales from Outer Suburbia’ by Shaun Tan

Published on behalf of Anna Fleming, Young Person's Project Worker The Reader Organisation was lucky enough to be sent 10…

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Shared Reading

Sir Alex tells players to get to the library

Over the weekend, libraries found a new supporter- Sir Alex Ferguson Speaking out against Manchester United player's use of Twitter,…

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Reading for Wellbeing: what a Conference!

Well, another year, another brilliant TRO conference... 250 people joined us from across the UK and beyond for a full…

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Dinner and Reading with Marilynne Robinson – SOLD OUT

Dinner and Reading with acclaimed author Marilynne Robinson on Monday 16th May is now SOLD OUT. If you would like…

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