“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
Archive: pleasure of reading
Manorfield School reading project
With the help of Near Neighbours and the Church Urban Fund we have been able to provide training... Read More
A guest blog from Toppsta
Over the last few months we’ve been lucky to receive some wonderful giveaways from Toppsta,... Read More
Reading Ahead
Since 2013 Give a Book has been involved with the Reading Ahead programme run by... Read More
The Comfort of Poetry by Rachel Kelly
Rachel Kelly is a writer and mental health campaigner. She speaks publicly about her experience of... Read More
Give a History Book at the Chalke Valley History Festival
To coincide with the Chalke Valley History Festival, Give a Book are excited to announce... Read More
A Place to Read
So where do you read? In a wheelbarrow, on a swing, in the park, in... Read More
The Reader Org Annual Conference
It’s almost that time of year again. The wonderful Reader Organisation holds their Annual Conference... Read More
Reading for Pleasure
Neil Gaiman gave the second annual lecture for The Reading Agency the other day. Miranda McKearney... Read More
More news from inside…Chibundu Onuzo at a prison reading group.
Chibundu Onuzo’s The Spider King’s Daughter is a first novel of degrading poverty and fabulous... Read More
The importance of instilling a need to read
A characteristically trenchant and excellent article in The Telegraph the other day by Jonathan Douglas Director... Read More
Here, they don’t have to be prisoners…
There was an interesting account by Ros Coward in The Guardian 15th January 2013 of... Read More
God bless Reading Groups
“It’s hard to train for freedom in a cage” is just one of the memorable... Read More
London reads Oliver Twist
London’s City Reads is Oliver Twist, appropriately enough in this Dickens anniversary year. There are events all over... Read More