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The Reader Bookshelf 2024 is here. A carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme…

We're taking a trip down memory lane and revisiting articles from The Reader Magazine. This article first appeared in issue 44.…

The Reader Bookshelf 2024 is here. A carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme…

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 selection of stories, extracts and poems have been chosen on the theme ‘Wonders of the World’. As we start…

We're taking a trip down memory lane and revisiting articles from The Reader Magazine. This article first appeared in issue 29.…

The clocks have not long changed to herald the longer hours of daylight, making us consider the passage of time…

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, extracts and poems have been chosen on the theme ‘Moving on’, which perhaps feels especially relevant as we…

February’s selection of stories, extracts and poems have been chosen on the theme of ‘Making connections’. We spend so much…

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…

Our 'From the Bookshelf' piece for January  explores the collection A Year With Rilke, and was written by Lisa Spurgin.…