Storytime with Very

We are so proud to be working with our corporate partner, Very UK, to bring you a series of online Storytime sessions, featuring some brilliant books being read by some very familiar faces.

Each week a new story will be available, and each one will also be accompanied by some top tips to help make sharing books fun and engaging!

Polly Faber, author and reading helper at Belmont Junior School reads her own book 'Picking Pickle'

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Jim Ashton, reading helper at Christ Church C of E Primary reads 'Stardust'

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Dan Snow reads 'Are you the pirate captain?'

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Clare Southall, reading helper at St Marie's Catholic Primary School reads 'I love you blue kangaroo'

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Katie Piper reads 'Stomp, Dinosaur, Stomp!'

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Sian Welby reads 'Elmer and the rainbow'

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Beverley Knight reads 'Oi Frog!'

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Mark Heyes reads 'There's a bear on my chair'

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Binky Felstead reads 'I don't want to wash my hands'

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Vogue Williams reads 'Gringer the Whinger'

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