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Celebrate the Storybarn’s Birthday this Half Term
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you. Shout…

Featured Poem: The Song of The Wandering Aengus by W.B. Yeats
This week's Featured Poem is The Song of The Wandering Aengus by W.B. Yeats and is brought to us by…

Lines by heart: The Cloud of Unknowing
Today's Lines by Heart reading is brought to us by Bristol Hub Leader at The Reader, Michael Prior. Michael recites…

Places to go: The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
North West Hub Leader at The Reader, Anna McCracken takes us on today's audio adventure and reads from The Railway Children by…

Live stream: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
This #TimeToTalk day, tune into our Shared Reading live stream at 7pm where we'll be reading from Little Women by…

My Inner Anthology: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Happy #WorldReadAloudDay! Today's reading comes from The Reader's Liverpool Hub Leader, Michelle Barrett. Michelle recommends a piece from her 'inner…

Live stream: How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In today's Shared Reading live stream we are reading How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning with PIPES…

Featured Poem: Daffodils by William Wordsworth
The first Featured Poem of February is Daffodils by William Wordsworth, is brought to us by The Reader's Hub Leader…

10 fascinating facts about commonplace books
Here at The Reader, we are inviting you to create your own page for our Commonplace Book – a community…

Live Stream: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
In today's Shared Reading live stream we are reading Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens with The Reader's Head of…

Reading Heroes: Looking back at 2020
In the latest update from the Reading Heroes project, Hope McGarry from the Children and Young People team takes a…

January’s Stories and Poems – literature to lift the spirits
A new year and a new month also brings a new selection of Stories and Poems to enjoy. We know…