Did you enjoy the #ReadingHour ?

We'd love to hear all about how you spent it 📚

Fill in the short survey 👉uk.culturecounts.cc/s/2oZTtm/splash

#Readinghour #QuickReads
Thank you The Reading Agency for a wonderful evening 💙

#EarthDay 'I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy'. - Sylvia Plath
Cli-Fi is literature about climate change -here is some cli-fi fiction we use for our projects.📚

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#Feedbackfriday

Books connect us to family and friends, to the wider world and to ourselves. Here's some wonderful feedback from PrisonReadingGroups who read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

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'The children liked the fact that they got new books to keep for themselves, also that they could lose themselves in a book.'

Lovely feedback from a space themed #prisonfamilyday we supported with lots of space-y books. 💙📖🪐
Nosy Crow Penguin Books UK 🪐Dr Sheila Kanani🪐 Threads @saturnsheila Alastair Chisholm

'It's good that we are all different. Take a book and read it, then meet again to discuss it.'

Our #prisonreadinggroups are a place of community and connection.

#FeedbackFriday
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Foreign language children’s books day sort out #booksintranslation

#HaikuDay

It’s Store Day today
Boxes and books packed and sent
To those most in need

Today we packed & sent 24 boxes for our projects 🙌 A huge thank you to our amazing Virgin Media O2 News volunteers for all their help, especially for organising the shelves- our store looks amazing!

It's #CharityTuesday on Riverside Breakfast!

Great to chat with Sarah Turvey OBE - director of Give a Book's Prison Reading Groups (@PRG_UK)

Find out more about Give A Book & Prison Reading Groups...here 👇

giveabook.org.uk
prisonreadinggroups.org.uk

« Reading groups offer community and connection. » Riverside Radio Give a Book

Tune into Riverside Radio to hear our brilliant Director talk about PRGs 25th birthday 🎂 Give a Book

📚Did you know Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was once a probation officer?

Recently he visited an established reading group HMPEastSuttonPark with @KentLibraries, where he shared his poetry collection & emphasised the importance of education in rehabilitation.

It was great to attend the #FCBG24 conference at the weekend. Thank you FCBG
for choosing us to be the recipients of the Federation gift - we chose lots of brilliant books from Norfolk Children's Book Centre and these will go out to a prison Family Day this month.

Norfolk Children's Book Centre Jane Etheridge FCBG Loved picking the books for #FamilyDays for Give a Book - as recipients of FCBG Federation Gift - they will go straight to one of the 74 Family Days we support each year - Thank you

📢The 2024 RSL Ondaatje Prize longlist is here🎇

For 20 years, the Prize has awarded £10,000 to a book that evokes the spirit of a place.

Huge congratulations to the 14 longlisted titles, chosen by judges Jan Carson, Xialou Guo, and Francis Spufford (also a past RSL Ondaatje

#FeedbackFriday

Reading is powerful! Here's some wonderful feedback from from a Prison Reading Group who read S.A.Cosby Blacktop Wasteland.

Headline Books Hachette UK

'Thank you so much for letting me do this, both my children were made up to hear daddy’s voice and to be able to read along with my voice, thanks again 😊'

#Feedback #RaisingReaders

Giving a sense of togetherness through books.

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New month means new #BookTalk .

Our lovely volunteers have chosen Sovietistan by Erika Fatland Quercus Books &
One Day by David Nicholls Hodder & Stoughton
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Today HMPIsis the Patrick Goldmann book is @Kennyimafidon’s memoir chosen by the group. Which bits stood out to you? I ask. 'The trial, the 2011 riots, getting robbed and then being the robber.'
'p21' K says, and reads the section about the effect of absent dads on boys. ‘That’s me.’

'The guys were really buzzing afterwards.'

Thank you Angela Findlay for an unforgettable talk at HMP Wandsworth and Penguin Books UK for bringing as all together.
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