Happy Mother’s Day
“To the other village girls Mother was something of a case, yet they were curiously drawn towards her. Her strain of fantasy, her deranged sense of fun, her invention, satire and elegance of manner,...
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4 things we learnt from A Little Aloud With Love
It’s been two months since the launch of our latest anthology A Little Aloud With Love but we’re still sharing the love because who says romance is just for Valentine’s Day? This April The Reader...
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Find a Christmas gift for all at The Reader
There’s no hiding from it anymore, Christmas is coming. But don’t panic, we’ve got bookish gifts all wrapped up! The trees are springing up, mince pies are back on the shelves and delicious food and...
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A Year of Books: Five of the Best from 2016
As Angela McMillan, co-editor of The Reader magazine, turns her attention to her reading list for the year ahead, we ask what she loved in 2016. Before I turn my full attention on another jam-packed...
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Give A Little Aloud With Love this Valentines
‘Love loves to love love…’ Has any other subject inspired history’s greatest writers more? As we prepare to celebrate A Little, Aloud with Love‘s first birthday this Valentines Day we’re collating our...
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Recommended Read: A Little Aloud With Love #1
As the world rushes towards Valentines Day in a flurry of reds and pinks and heart shaped balloons we thought we’d pause for thought. Over the next week members of our Reader family will be reflecting...
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Recommended Read: A Little, Aloud With Love #2
This week we’re sharing that loving feeling by delving into our anthology A Little, Aloud With Love. Practice Mentor Clare is back with another recommendation and a reflection on how it’s been...
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Recommended Read: A Little, Aloud With Love #3
With Valentines creeping closer we’re taking up some suitably romantic weekend reading as recommended by Practice Mentor Amanda – Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd. A real treat for Valentine’s...
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Recommended Read: A Little, Aloud With Love #4
Happy Valentines Readers! Today Practice Mentor Grace has another Recommended Read to share from our anthology A Little, Aloud With Love. Love stories take time to form, and while we’re waiting for our...
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A Little, Aloud for Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and it has us thinking about the literary mums celebrated in our A Little, Aloud anthologies so we thought we’d share our recommended reads for Mother’s Day. As...
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Featured Poem: The Voice by Thomas Hardy
This week’s featured poem, The Voice by Thomas Hardy, has got thinking about reading aloud in Shared Reading groups, the importance of hearing the written word out loud in different voices. Reading...
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