Looking for a book club for your school? Interested in bringing brilliant authors into your classroom to help you celebrate stories and nurture a love of reading in your pupils? Then look no further!
Farshore is home to some of the most diverse and exciting authors and illustrators in the world, and we’re on a mission to help your pupils become passionate readers for life. Research has shown that reading for pleasure is the single greatest factor in improving children’s life chances. That’s why we’ve teamed up with our sister company, Collins, the leading educational publisher in the UK to bring amazing books and authors into your classroom.
We have two brilliant events happening in the Spring Term for you to sign up to!
The Reading for Pleasure Book Club features two free live virtual author and illustrator events per term (one for KS1, one for KS2) and much more:
- Option to watch the events on catch up afterwards at a time to suit you
- Resources to explore the book with your students
- A free copy of Help Your Child Love Reading: A Parent’s Guide to loan to your parents and share tips on how to share the stories at home
- 60% discount on copies of the featured books through the Collins website using the code FARSHORE60
KS1: Sarah Coyle’s Pick a Story
Join author Sarah Coyle for a unique Pick A Story event where the audience decides what happens every step of the way! Do you want to fight the pirates? Bake with unicorns? Treasure-hunt with dragons? The choice is all yours. In this immersive adventure, we create magical soundscapes to bring different worlds to life. No matter what journey we take, somehow we always manage to find what we’re looking for; be it an all-important birthday cake, or a beloved dog called Trouble, or a missing Show and Tell drawing. Isn’t it about time you got to decide?
Sarah Coyle is the author of The Biggest Story, illustrated by Dan Taylor, and Once You’re Asleep, illustrated by Carolina Rabei, and now the Pick A Story series. If Sarah had to pick a story to inhabit, it would be in a Live-Music/Forest/Peanut-Butter-on-Toast adventure, because all those things are great. The next book in the Pick A Story series will be published in May 2024.
Children will have the chance to ask Sarah any questions as part of the event, about her books, writing or anything else.
KS2: Laura Ellen Anderson’s Marnie Midnight and the Moon Mystery
Join bestselling creator Laura Ellen Anderson for a journey to the magical world of Miniopolis, a fun-filled land of minibeasts and moon magic. Meet an extraordinary cast of new characters including Marnie Midnight and her minibeast friends Floyd Flombiddium and Star Vonstrosity. Discover how Laura takes inspiration from the real world around us, create your own weird and wonderful Minibeast character and learn how to draw one of Marnie’s adorable friends!
Laura is the creator of the bestselling Amelia Fang and Rainbow Grey series, and Marnie Midnight is her brand-new series launching in 2024.
Children will have the chance to ask Laura any questions as part of the event, about her books, writing, drawing or anything else.
You can also catch up on our previous events:
Gareth shares some music magic based on his Fairytales for the Fearless series. Hear about the fairy tales that inspired Gareth’s books and sing, rap and ROAR along in this hilarious and unique event.
Jennifer Killick, author of Crater Lake, introduces her new comedy-horror series Dread Wood, perfect for fans of Goosebumps! Jennifer explores why we love stories and how to make our imaginations grow, before sharing her top tips for combining comedy and horror in stories.
Award-winning author and former BookTrust Writer in Residence Smriti Halls leads a storytelling event all about YOU! Her new picture book Who Are You? celebrates the pieces, places and people that make us who we are. Hear about Smriti’s inspiration and draw a picture that represents you.
Reading for Pleasure Matters
At Farshore, our mission is to make every child a proud reader, because there is a wealth of research to show that children that read for pleasure simply do better in life. Here’s just some of the benefits taking part in the book club will bring to your school:
- Be on the pulse of book trends and easily discover inclusive books for every reader
- Support parents to extend your school’s reading culture into the home
- Inspire a love of reading in the classroom, improving your students’ educational performance and life chances because:
Reading for pleasure is more important to a child’s academic success than the parents’ socio- economic status. (OECD)
Pupils who report liking reading the most perform, on average, 45-points above those pupils who indicate that they do not like reading. (Source: Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS): National Report for England December 2017)
Children who read for pleasure daily, or nearly every day, are a year ahead in reading performance vs those who never do OECD (2010)
Find out more here: https://www.farshore.co.uk/resources-for-everyone/resources-for-teachers-librarians/
