Applications for the Reading School Fund are now open!

We're awarding grants of up to £500 to help your setting and learners achieve Reading School accreditation, with the purchase of:
📚Books
📚Reading materials
📚Furnishings for reading spaces

www.readingschools.scot/funding

New team member incoming.

Our new Anderson's Care Home reading group for the new session.
#communityreadingproject
#ReadingSchool.
The S4s are here!

Co-labhairt Litearrachd nan Eilean Chuala co-labhairt ann an Steòrnabhagh an-diugh gum feum brosnachadh a thoirt do chlonn gu bhith a' faighinn tlachd bho bhith a' leughadh leabhraichean.

The Reading Schools team is on tour in the Isle of Lewis, working with schools and libraries to boost a reading culture!

Our Reading Schools Project Manager, Liam, spoke to #BBCAlba about tackling the decline in reading for pleasure among young people. 👇📺

New friends in Stornoway. Thank you so much for welcoming us to your beautiful part of Scotland @wilibraries.bsky.social. What a week!

A Story Deck box sits on a white wooden surface. Illustrated cards from the card game are spread out on the surface as are the written rules of the game.

Every secondary school in Scotland can now get a free Story Deck! 🎉

Story Deck is a fun, interactive card game designed to spark meaningful conversations about stories and help them discover new stories.

Register now to bring Story Deck to your school. 🎴📚

www.readingschools.scot/story-deck

Read our new article on how Reading Schools can work in rural settings ⬇️ @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
#readingschools #edusky #booksky

www.readingschools.scot/articles/rea...

Social card in purple celebrating the Read It Forward campaign from Bookshop.org. The poster contains logos for Scottish Book Trust, BookTrust and Bookshop.org. In the centre is a quote from Nadine Aisha Jassat, who is also pictured. It reads: 'Let's spread the joy of children's reading together'.

We are excited to be a part of Read It Forward! Buy any children's or YA book on @bookshop-org.bsky.social this February and 10% of the sale will be donated to Scottish Book Trust or our best friends at @booktrust.org.uk. 📚

Explore all the books on Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/lists/about-...

Read It Forward with Bookshop.org This February, we invite you to Read It Forward. 10% of all children's book sales through Bookshop.org go to BookTrust and Scottish Book Trust in February 2025, and EVERY sale supports independent boo...

We are thrilled to announce our Read It Forward ambassadors. A huge thanks to Alexander Armstrong, @serenakpatel.bsky.social, Andy Day, Catherine Rayner and Nadine Aisha Jassat.

10% of ALL our children's book sales in Feb go to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social bit.ly/RIFEB25

Cover of Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan, showing two children running through the Paris night, over the roof of a moque

My favourite children's book of the year: SAFIYYAH'S WAR by Hiba Noor Khan. Absolutely beautiful & brilliant; every school & library should have a copy. To which end, I am giving away FREE COPIES TO SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES! Repost & follow to enter; closes 25th Jan 2025!
#BooksOfTheYear #books #giveaway

New AI tool can track dolphins by their 'regional accents' The tool can be helped to identify dolphin species and to study the impact human activities, like fishing, have on the aquatic mammals.

This is as good as the discovery some years back that Cornish ducks make more relaxed sounds than London ones. The Cockney quack is like a shout, whereas the Cornish version is more of a giggle.
www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...

Authors Live - Elle McNicoll Author of A Kind of Spark, Elle McNicoll talks about its prequel, Keedie.

It’s a goodun! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...