Lithuanian Day of the Book Smugglers
Each year March 16th marks Lithuania's Day of the Book Smugglers to commemorate those involved in smuggling banned Lithuanian books into the country to preserve the Lithuanian language. Read More
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World Book Day 2022
Thursday 3rd March 2022 marks 25 years of World Book Day and at Give a Book we're celebrating in the only way we know how: Giving Books! Read More
Making it Up: parents in prison connecting through stories
This blog was written by David Kendall for the NCJAA. You can see the original... Read More
Give a Book this Christmas
Give a Book’s ethos is to ‘promote books and the pleasure of reading in the... Read More
2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
Launched in September 2015, the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation is a charitable organisation dedicated... Read More
Reading in Prison Day 2021 Roundup
This year PRG and Give a Book held our first virtual Reading in Prison event,... Read More
#Libraries Week
In celebration of Libraries Week 2021, the Give a Book team decided to look back... Read More
“The work you do really isn’t just simply, giving a book.” Our year at Larkspur Primary.
2020 was a difficult year, children missed months of school and when Larkspur approached us... Read More
Guest blog: International Literacy Day and the Magical World of Children’s Books
One of the greatest skills we can learn in life is to be able to... Read More
Give a History Book
The Give a History Book project was created by Give a Book’s patron Lady Antonia... Read More
Is reading aloud on the decline? (and why we need it)
Following the success of our volunteer information sessions early in the year, we were approached... Read More
Nightingale Community Academy: Guest Blog
In December 2020 Give a Book sent a Christmas book bundle to Nightingale Community Academy.... Read More
Books to beat isolation
It’s not difficult to imagine how hard the first night of a prison sentence must... Read More
World Book Day 2021
It’s that time of year again… this Thursday 4th March is World Book Day 2021!... Read More
A guest blog from…The Children’s Bookshow
The Children’s Bookshow is a charity that inspires school children with a love of reading... Read More