I Hate Reading! Reasons Your Child Hates Reading
18 May, 2022
Does your class or child hate reading? Here we have the reasons your child hates reading, and a few activities to help encourage them to read.
Allison King
Allison King is a Chartered Librarian for the Education Resources Service at Juniper Education. Allison has many years of experience working in research libraries in the finance sector, children’s libraries in primary schools and the Public Library. She runs the well established Juniper Book Award and enjoys reading stories on the Storytelling Bookbus.
National Storytelling Week: Storytelling in lockdown
28 January, 2021
National Storytelling Week (30th Jan~ 6th February) gives us the perfect opportunity to embrace stories, whether that’s by reading aloud, retelling a traditional story from memory, listening to an author
Are book awards a good idea?
23 October, 2020
The Juniper Book Awards 2021 launched on 19th October 2020 and is a great way to encourage reading for pleasure in schools.
How to Help Your Child Write a Book Review
24 June, 2020
Whether you enjoyed a book or not you often want to tell someone your opinion. As your child explores a world of book variety they can become very enthusiastic about something they have read
National Candy Month
19 June, 2020
A Few of Our Favourite Things. It’s National Candy Month and because we all need a little distraction from today’s challenges we’re thinking about some of our favourite things – chocolate sweets and books
Storytelling Tips for Parents
1 May, 2020
I love sharing my love of books with children by reading and telling exciting stories. There’s nothing better than taking children on a voyage of discovery through the pages of a book