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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…
Recycling Johnson – Day Two
Having already covered 49 miles in their first 24 hours, day two of Recycling Johnson will see Phil and Sheena…
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,…
Recycling Johnson…
...And they’re off! Today marks the beginning of Phil and Sheena Davies’s mammoth cycle around the Highlands and Islands of…
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…
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…
Libraries I Have Known
Published on behalf of Emily Lezzeri, Get Into Reading South West Project Worker Libraries: quiet, calm and relaxing? My earliest…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…