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Bridges by Magda Garguláková - Fun Activities
A fascinating journey into the world of bridges, this large-format book is perfect for any budding young architect. From striking modern marvels like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Millau Viaduct to historic stone arches like the Ponte Vecchio, discover how these ingenious structures shorten journeys, save us time and effort and offer breathtaking views. Download this set of three activity sheets to continue the fun – a maze, a quiz and a pasta bridge building challenge!
Tiger, Don't Worry! by Daishu Ma - Fun Activity Sheets
Adorable duo, Tiger and Mei, are back! In this heart-warming tale of friendship, responsibility and courage, Mei and her exuberant friend Tiger eagerly try to help make tea, but their efforts lead to broken tools and panic! Fearing being scolded, they run away, but Mei soon realises the importance of facing their mistake. Returning home with trepidation, they are met not with anger, but with patience – and a lesson on how to make tea properly! This delightful story concludes with Mei and...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Rush by Beth Lewis
Gold fever has taken him. I believe he means to kill me… Canada, 1898. The Gold Rush is on in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. Fortunes are made as quickly as they’re lost, and Dawson City has become a lawless settlement. In its midst, three women are trying to find their place on the edge of civilisation. Journalist Kate, along with her dog Yukon, has travelled hundreds of miles after receiving a letter from her sister warning that her husband means to kill her. Martha’s hotel and...
Dead Real by Poppy T. Perry
Get your readers talking zombies and romance with Dead Real by Poppy T. Perry with these reading group notes. ‘Heartstopper meets Shaun of the Dead’ – Sarah Broadley Nora Inkwell is totally, completely, absolutely going to tell her best friend and fellow horror movie superfan, Ruby, that she’s in love with her. It doesn’t matter that Baxter from Body Combat wrote on the college wall that Nora’s frigid. Or that Ruby is more interested in losing her lesbian v-plates before they start...
The Doughnut Club: Teaching Resources
About The Doughnut Club: Donor conceived Quinn loves her family, but she often feels the odd one out. But when Quinn’s mums tell her and Olly they have sixteen donor siblings, Quinn is really excited. Maybe one of them will be more like her! As she tries to secretly find out more, Quinn starts to lose sight of what’s really important. Can she find a way back to her family, whilst finding a way to tell them how she really feels? About this resource pack: This resource pack focusses on themes...
All Fours by Miranda July - digital pack and book club guide
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK A semi-famous artist turns forty-five and gives herself a gift – a cross-country road trip from LA to New York, without her husband and child. But thirty minutes after setting off, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel – and embarks on the journey of a lifetime. To celebrate paperback publication of All Fours by Miranda July, Canongate are sharing a...
DO NOT SAY THESE WORDS - Activity Pack
Keep your children safe! Certain words are making children giggle. Giggling produces gigglegas. And giggle-gas is bad for the planet. Help children keep this in mind with these handy activities and save the planet from giggles! The Professor needs YOUR help to save the world. Gigglesome words are BANNED, and are being replaced with boring, totally unfunny words. So you must never, EVER speak these dangerous words again. And you DEFINITELY can’t giggle. OK? Try and keep a straight face from...
Breakthrough - Discussion Questions
The ultimate mindset manual to empower young people to navigate challenges and achieve success, inspired by Omar Sharif’s unforgettable true story. Themes: Non-Fiction | Mindset Manual | Self Belief | Achieving Potential
Felix and the Future Agency by Rachel Morrisroe - digital assets
Get ready to join magical new hero Felix Green on an edge-of-your-seat adventure at the FUTURE AGENCY. Perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and Skandar… ‘Explosively magical! What a fun-filled, exciting adventure – kids are going to love it!’ Abi Elphinstone, author of Skysong ‘Very occasionally, a book comes along that feels fantastically unique – Felix and the Future Agency is that book. Clever and funny with a genius premise and characters to fall in love with, I’m already counting down the...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth. Find out more about the book Read this exclusive extract now, as chosen by library staff across the UK for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club.
OCEAN by David Attenborough and Colin Butfield - video assets and fact sheet
The landmark new book from David Attenborough and Colin Butfield. A lifetime of discovery. A century in the making. Ocean is the landmark publication by the greatest natural history broadcaster of our times on how to save the ocean – and consequently our planet. It is a book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed. Download the digital resources.
It's OK to Say No Lesson Plan
From the bestselling author of How Are You Feeling Today? comes a reassuring picture book, perfect for starting conversations with young children about consent. From personal space to sharing, and from privacy to asking for help, It’s OK to Say No explains why learning to respect yourself and others is important. This is a free digital lesson plan to use with the book.
Elmer Day 2025 - digital resources
This year, is Elmer the patchwork elephant’s 36th birthday! The digital pack includes activity sheets, craft ideas, games and lots of other resources. Everyone is invited to join in the fun for Elmer Day, and while the official date for this year’s Elmer Day is 24 May, we invite you to celebrate at a time that works for you, whether that’s sharing Elmer stories and wearing colourful clothing throughout the week before, or hosting craft sessions during Half Term. If you’re holding a public...
Reading group questions for The Light a Candle Society by Ruth Hogan
Ruth Hogan’s known for her books with heart, and The Light a Candle Society is no exception! Out in June 2025, The Light a Candle Society is a heart-warming and redemptive story of finding light and joy even in times of darkness. Reading group questions have been supplied here to share with your fellow book fans, so if you’re looking for an uplifting tale that’ll make you feel warm and fuzzy about the human race, this is the book for you!
Wendington Jones series by Daniel Dockery - Activity Pack
Prepare for the adventure of a life time with this incredible activity pack to accompany the globe-trotting, historical-adventure Wendington Jones series by Daniel Dockery. Write a travel journal, decorate your suitcase, plot a course on your map and more! Wendington Jones has her world abruptly up-ended when her adventuring mother dies in a car crash in late 1920. Left in the care of her Grandmamma and her valet Rohan, Wendington receives a parcel in the middle of the night, seemingly from...
The Gargoyles series by Tamsin Mori - Activity sheet
Draw your own gargoyle with this fantastic activity sheet, inspired by the Gargoyles series – the new middle-grade adventure series from award-winning children’s author, Tamsin Mori. Action-packed and full of mystery, these fantasy novels are a must-read for fans of magic, mythology and the power of friendship. Callen’s Dad has always been secretive of his past – but when the family have to move into his childhood home, the last thing Callen expects is a boarded-up, crumbling mansion covered...
Young Love by Suzanne Ewart - Reading Group Notes
Get your book club chat started with these handy reading group notes to accompany copies of Young Love by Suzanne Ewart – a novel that explores first love, love between friends, families and loving yourself enough to find happiness, even when it’s not what you imagined. Kelsey and Lewis have been best friends for ten years before, finally, he kisses her for the first time … And leaves for a job in New York the next day. Counting down the days until he comes back to Liverpool, Kelsey busies...
The Bletchley Riddle Discussion Guide and Activity Sheets
A free digital discussion guide and activity sheets for The Bletchley Riddle – a thrilling middle grade historical adventure from bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin.
Don't tickle the... Activity Sheets
Combining touchy-feely patches with sounds, DON’T TICKLE ™ touchy-feely sound books from Usborne are full of surprises for babies and toddlers to discover, with an irresistible musical finale. Guaranteed giggles with your little one! Download the free activity sheets below.
Pirate Academy series by Justin Somper - Activity Pack
Have you got what it takes to join the Pirate Academy? From Justin Somper, the award-winning author of Vampirates, comes this brilliant new Middle Grade adventure series for readers aged 9 and up! The year is 2507. The oceans have risen. A new dawn of piracy has begun. Jacoby Blunt and Jasmine Peacock are students at the elite Pirate Academy, where lessons range from Knots Class to Combat Workshop and Navigation by Map or Moon. The teachers are all pirate legends. The pressure is always...
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell - Dragon Spotting Activity
Printable activity sheets to create a ‘dragon treasure hunt’ for children to engage with.
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell - Event Pack
Pack of creative activities to help host How to Train Your Dragon themed events. Activities include: design a dragon, make your ow crown, write like a Viking, gruesome Viking facts, party games and costume ideas.
How to Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing by Cressida Cowell - School Teaching Resources
This pack contains a variety of engaging activities suitable for classroom or library sessions. Children will imagine that they are Viking warriors attending the ‘Isle of Berk’s Training School for Vikings and Dragons’. They will complete crosscurricular challenges such as making their own Viking ship, designing their own dragon and creating a comic strip adventure story. The activities are designed for lower key stage two but can easily be adapted for younger or older students and...
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr - discussion guide
Discover the uplifting and completely heartwarming debut novel from Samuel Burr,The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers. Click download to get a copy of the discussion guide. More about the book Clayton Stumper is an enigma. He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your grandad and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by the sharpest minds in the British Isles and finds himself amongst the last survivors of a...
Spring: The Story of a Season by Michael Morpurgo - digital resources
Celebrate National Hedgerow Week from 5 – 11 May 2025 with Spring by Michael Morpurgo, in partnership with Hodder Press and The Tree Council. Michael Morpurgo has lived on a farm deep in rural Devon for more than forty years. In Spring, he observes the season unfold around him, as fragile new shoots emerge, buds turn to blossom and grey skies give way to blue. With new poems and reminiscences about childhood and springs gone by, this is an enchanting memoir of a season from one of the world’s...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Every morning at around half past ten, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters – to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their latest books. Because at seventy-three, Sybil has used her correspondence – full of sharp humour and hard-earned wisdom – to make sense of the world. But beyond the page, she has spent the last thirty...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
Can you imagine it? I’d say to them. Can you imagine me there in the front row in Saint Peter’s Square? The lesbian sister of a literal saint. Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now living in London with her girlfriend, determined to live day to day and not think too much about either the future or the past. But when she learns that her beloved older brother, who died in a terrible accident, may be made into a Catholic saint, she realises she must at last confront her family,...
Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea - Teaching Resources
Notes for Teachers for children aged 9+ Explore themes of: - Nature - The ocean - Coral reefs - Magic and fantasy Subject Checklist: - Literacy - Science - D.T. - Art and design - P.S.H.E. The activities included here are suitable for the classroom or library sessions.
The Lion Inside 10th Anniversary - image and video assets
A bestselling story about confidence, self-esteem, and a shy little mouse who sets out on a journey to find his roar. In a dry dusty place where the sand sparkled gold, stood a mighty flat rock, all craggy and old. And under that rock in a tinyful house, lived the littlest, quietest, meekest brown mouse. Fed up of being ignored by the other animals, Mouse wishes he could roar like Lion. But, as he discovers, even the biggest, bossiest people are scared sometimes… and even the smallest...
Let the Light In by Jenny Downham and Louis Hill - author videos and discussion guide
‘An extraordinary book, tenderly told. There is so much loss, beauty, hope and care in its pages. I read it all at once, but it will stay with me for a very long time to come’ – Katya Balen Leah and Charlie are handling their family’s loss in very different ways. Their choices push them down difficult and perilous paths which eventually collide, sending shockwaves through their community. This astounding, compulsive novel explores love, power, money, art, and asks: what matters most in the...
