Lincoln’s Member of Parliament, Karl McCartney MP, is supporting a campaign run by charity The Reading Agency to encourage all primary school children to join their local library and take part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge - the UK’s largest reading for pleasure promotion for primary school children.
A unique partnership between The Reading Agency and public libraries across the UK, the Summer Reading Challenge got a record 810,000 children reading in the summer holidays in 2013. With the support of local Members of Parliament, libraries, schools and a host of well-known children’s authors including Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Morpurgo, even more children aged 4-11 will be encouraged to join the library and complete the challenge this year.
Children can go on the website summerreadingchallenge.org.uk to create a profile, chat about books, and get help on what to read next, via the digitalBook Sorter which already offers over 300,000 peer to peer children’s book recommendations in child-friendly categories.
The Reading Agency is also working with SOLUS UK Ltd to add some “digital magic” to the 2014 Challenge - for the first time, librarians and families will be able to download a free mobile App onto their devices which will recognise key Mythical Maze illustrations and trigger audio visual content including videos, games and messages from the mythical creatures.