All Posts
The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf 2024 is here. A carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme…
Reader Revisited: Jane Davis in Conversation with Jeanette Winterson
We're taking a trip down memory lane and revisiting articles from The Reader Magazine. This article first appeared in issue 44.…
The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf 2024 is here. A carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme…
June’s Monthly Stories and Poems
We’re going travelling through our literature choices in June’s Monthly Stories and Poems selection, as the theme is On our travels.…
May’s Monthly Stories and Poems
May’s selection of stories, extracts and poems have been chosen on the theme ‘Wonders of the World’. As we start…
Reader Revisited: An Interview with Mark Rylance, actor and writer of ‘I Am Shakespeare’
We're taking a trip down memory lane and revisiting articles from The Reader Magazine. This article first appeared in issue 29.…
April’s Monthly Stories and Poems
The clocks have not long changed to herald the longer hours of daylight, making us consider the passage of time…
The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf
Our last deep dive into the 2023/24 Children and Young People's Reader Bookshelf is a review of Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick…
March’s Stories and Poems
March’s stories, extracts and poems have been chosen on the theme ‘Moving on’, which perhaps feels especially relevant as we…
February’s Stories and Poems
February’s selection of stories, extracts and poems have been chosen on the theme of ‘Making connections’. We spend so much…
The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf
We're continuing to delve into the Children and Young People's Reader Bookshelf with a review of Joseph Coelho's 25 Poems of Power…
From the Bookshelf: A Year With Rilke
Our 'From the Bookshelf' piece for January explores the collection A Year With Rilke, and was written by Lisa Spurgin.…
