An Enchanted Colouring Adventure by Johanna Basford in our October Book of the Month competition, courtesy of our friends at ...

Each month we'll provide a prompt to get you started, but where the story goes from there is entirely up to you. The 50 Word ...

Bestselling author Elle McNicoll joins us on Authors Live to share her YA debut, Some Like it Cold!

Douglas Dougan is an award-winning screenwriter, script editor and producer. He has written for a host of TV series including Casualty, The Bill and Kingdom. His film, Run, Tony, Run won the Scottish ...

Gavin writes games and fiction, ranging from full-length interactive novels to the snappy audio drama of Zombies, Run! and the tabletop horrors of Call of Cthulhu. Recent work includes a graphic novel ...

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Changing time is a great opportunity for face-to-face interaction. Show lots of smiles and expression on your face as you share this song while you change your baby's nappy. Soon your baby will ...

Before they can talk, babies communicate through gestures, facial expressions and sounds; watching your baby’s cues and responding appropriately can help you find out what they like, build an ...

How does our relationship with books change across our lifetime? As part of the Reading and Wellbeing project, funded by Leverhulme Trust, researchers from the Literacy Lab(this link will open in a ...

This article was written by Professor Anna Franklin and Taysa-Ja Newman. Newborn babies’ vision is very poor, and as a result they benefit from the high contrast of black and white books with big bold ...

This is a complete toolkit of resources and activity ideas to help you run a paired reading project in your school, library or education setting. It is split into two sections. The first for those ...

Nicola was a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust Reading and Wellbeing project at the University of Edinburgh, exploring reader perspectives on the relationship between fiction reading and ...