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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.  

Read some 366 stories now!

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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!

 Download Michael Rosen's poem readings on video! 

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.

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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.

Try the Rory and Stella pageturner!

Or the animated story of The Croc who invented surfing!

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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!