On World Book Day, Head of Coram Beanstalk Amy Lewis reflects on the mission of the World Book Day charity, 'the reading for fun charity'. Read more
Geraldine Grandidier, the founder and designer of Tidy Books, who create beautiful bookcases for children, joined us as reading helper volunteer last year. Read why she decided to become a volunteer with us here... Read more
Ex-teacher and Coram Beanstalk training and resources manager, Rebecca, shares why having Coram Beanstalk reading helpers in your school can be a gift for teachers. Read more
In celebration of World Book Day, Amy Lewis, Head of Coram Beanstalk, explores the theme for 2025 of 'Read your Way'... Read more
Our friends at Parrot Street Book Club generously give us a 50p donation for every book they ship to their subscribers. Here, Emily Bright and Sarah Campbell, founders of the book subscription service for children, have written about the 6 ways in which graphic novels can encourage reading for pleasure! Read more
Amy Lewis, Head of Coram Beanstalk, welcomes in a new year... Read more
At Coram Beanstalk we're often asked how best to support children in specific year groups and sometimes we can find ourselves becoming overly concerned by a child’s reading age or ability and what level books they “should” be reading. Our Learning and Development Manager, Rebecca Pedelty-cox helps unpick the idea of a 'reading age'. Read more
Reading helper, and children's author Jemma Hatt, gives an insight into her role with Coram Beanstalk during the first half term of the new school year... Read more
Dr Bharti Parmar couldn't read until she was seven years old. Here she tells us how the reasons for that have shaped her volunteering role with us... Read more
One of our recently trained reading helpers talks about why she chose to join our Coram Beanstalk reading community... Read more
Four very special children's author friends of ours each tell their favourite traditional fairy tale to celebrate Tell a Fairy Tale Day! Listen to Pippa Goodhart, Abi Elphinstone, Claire Fayers and Marianne McShane tell you a story here... Read more
Giving the gift of reading is so much more than ‘just’ giving a child a book. When we give a child a reason to read that book, when we help them to discover for themselves the value and pleasure that reading can bring, and give them free rein to explore books in their own way.... those children become readers with all of the benefits that brings! Read more