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Libraries Week 2023 - digital pack

Simon and Schuster are providing digital resources to support activity in your library for Libraries Week 2023.

This includes videos from Love Your Libraries illustrators, activity sheets and Love Your Library/Libraries Week digital assets.

COMPETITION

To be in with a chance of winning a money-can’t-buy piece of original artwork from one of their illustrators, created for our 2019 “Love Your Library” campaign, post your photo on social media using the below handles/tags or email [email protected].

Illustrators that took part in the 2019 “Love Your Library” campaign include:

Kate Hindley
Ben Cort
Sue Hendra/Paul Linnet
Fiona Lumbers
Nicola Killen
Ali Pye
Fiona Woodcock
Richard Jones
Claire Powell
Tom Percival
Steve Small
Sara Ogilvie

You can share how you’ve used your resources on social media using #LibrariesWeek and tagging @simonkids_UK and @readingagency on Twitter. For Instagram, please use @simonkidsuk and @readingagency.

News

Radio 2 Book Club - Winter titles

The Winter season of the Radio 2 Book Club is out now, with brilliant brand-new fiction titles to discover. The BBC Radio 2 Book Club is on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. It features a wide range of titles and authors, recommending great reads from both new and much-loved writers, encouraging listeners to perhaps try out a genre they might not have read before, and share their opinions and insights on the titles and great reads they’re enjoying right now.

Resources

How to start a reading group

Interested in joining a reading group or starting one of your own? Download our quick guide to getting started. You can also download icebreaker questions to help get your discussion started, and a social media guide to show how you can share your reading with others online.

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Discussion guides

We know how useful a discussion guide is for your book club meeting, so here you’ll find some recent guides provided by publishers. Free to download, you can use them to help choose your next book and guide your discussion.

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