Our #BeanstalkBrilliantBook of the month is 'The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish' written and illustrated by Chloe Savage. This beautifully illustrated picture book is filled with stunning pages that will delight children of any age - and adults too! Find out more here... Read more
With things finally starting to feel a bit more spring-like outside and Earth Day being celebrated on 22nd April, this month we've chosen a #BrilliantBeanstalkBook of the month which we hope will help children understand the importance of protecting our planet and some of the issues faced by climate change. Read more about 'The Last Bear' by Hannah Gold here... Read more
Coram Beanstalk, The Alligator's Mouth Book Shop and The Bright Agency are once again offering schools the opportunity to win a set of the ten books longlisted for The Alligator’s Mouth Award 2024, which champions both authors and illustrators of highly illustrated children’s fiction. Nominate a UK-based school to win a set of the ten longlisted books for their school library here... 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
Having delivered over 40 of our Reading Leaders courses in secondary schools across the country since September, we're delighted to be receiving so much positive feedback and have even appeared in a recent Ofsted report. Read more here... Read more
Our #BeanstalkBrilliantBook of the Month for March is 'Peanut Jones and the end of the rainbow' by Rob Biddulph - a wonderful example of a fearless female character, perfect for a month in which we celebrate International Women's Day. Read more about Peanut and discover more Beanstalk Brilliant Books with strong female protagonists here... Read more
Coram Beanstalk is helping to develop and deliver a new Books Together programme to support parents of young children to read together regularly and encourage them to embed storytelling into their routine, through a series of informative and interactive sessions within Coram Family and Childcare's Parent Champions programme. Read more
The World Book Day team chooses a fantastic selection of books every year, but if a child doesn't consider themselves a reader, they might not be that interested in looking at them. For the third year in a row, Coram Beanstalk has used our expertise to create some book-related activities to help open the door to the books without even having to open the front cover... Read more
February 5 - 11 is Children's Mental Health Week so our Book of the Month is one of the #BeanstalkBrilliantBooks we've selected for our free mental health and wellbeing toolkit for primary school children. Read more about Wonder by R. J. Palacio and the other books we've chosen here... Read more
Coram has teamed up with bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Rob Biddulph to launch a ‘Reveal Your Character’ competition for children, celebrating the charity’s new partnership with ITV’s The Masked Singer. Enter before 7 February 2024. Read more
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