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Wow 366!
These bite-sized tales are told in just 366 words, from the top names in children’s fiction, including Roddy Doyle, Susan Cooper, Eva Ibbotson, Jeremy Strong, Georgia Byng, Ian Whybrow… and Gordon Brown!
Read them in the park, on your lunch break, on the train into work (or on your way home), on the loo, in the bath or under your favourite tree.
5 minutes more
Sharing stories with your child improves confidence, develops communication skills and encourages a lifelong love of reading. The 5 Minutes More campaign is all about encouraging parents to commit to spending an extra five minutes a day, for one month, reading or telling stories with their children. The UKfamily site is packed full of helpful tips and ideas on how to make story-time interesting, exclusive competitions, recommendations for books as well as details of web chats with top authors and extra-special storytelling events being held at over 60 Disney Stores and 2000 libraries nationwide.
For more information please visit www.ukfamily.co.uk/fiveminutesmore
Michael Rosen is the Children's poet laureate, ambassador for our Year of Reading in 2008, and all round lovely chap. Don't belive me? He's filmed all of the poems from his 'Hypnotiser' book for his website!
The Noble Gnarble
Read about the adventures of The Noble Gnarble, the little fish that wants to see the sun, kindly provided by Danny Errico from www.freechildrenstories.com - just click here.
In the Picture online stories
Free online stories (ages 4-10) from In the Picture, a campaign run by Scope to encourage the inclusion of disabled children in illustrations and story lines in books for young readers.
Signed Stories
Signed Stories is a fun and friendly site with lots of stories in sound, sign language and subtitles - great for learning!
Reading for Life will be teaming up with Signed Stories here, but while we build the page try the Signed Stories site here, and come back soon!
