National Year of Reading – The Federation of Children’s Book Groups

For the National Year of Reading, we are sharing a series of short conversations with people who are involved in promoting reading with young people. This could be a programme, resources or a literary event, and we’re giving them the opportunity to share what they do and how people can get involved. In this episode […]

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Ultimate Superstar: Rashmi Sirdeshpande on her new books Hari Kumar and Super Uma

In this episode we are joined by author Rashmi Sirdeshpande about her new books – Hari Kumar Ultimate Superstar (illustrated by Mamta Singh) which is a diary style middle grade and Super Uma (illustrated by Nakul P.) which is picture book with lots of sparkle and the all important unicorn. Rashmi is as ever super

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Part 6 – The Reading Crisis – Why children aren’t reading and what we can do about it

For Part 6 we asked all our interviewees for one thing they would do to address the reading crisis. Properly funded libraries and librarians were unsurprisingly a strong theme, but also a rethink about how we position children’s reading – how do we find the space for children to read and support children to experience

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Part 5 – The Reading Crisis – Why children aren’t reading and what we can do about it.

In part 5 we continue looking at what works to support reading for pleasure, focusing more this time on opportunities for authors to engage with readers and the importance of wider family and community involvement and spaces to discover and talk about books. For this series we interviewed the following people (not all feature in

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