Stories from Reading Rocks

Opening with a vlog! Fantastic idea and grabs the reader straight away. The two children we meet are Lottie and Mo. They have been thrown together when Mo’s Mum and Lottie’s Dad move in together. Moving to a new house is traumatic for Mo, even though the house is only...

It starts with a map - who doesn’t love a book with a map?! There is a short foreword, almost a dare to continue to read on. And read on I did! The scene is set. It is depths of winter, in a sea-side hotel – the Hotel Nautilus. We meet Herbert Lemon. Herbert, who was...

It is a delight to welcome Andrew, AKA The Vocabulary Ninja, to the Blog today, after the publication of his new book last week, available here. The book is jam-packed with classroom-ready resources to help promote vocabulary. It has 3 parts: the first the how and the...

Now we all know that feeling of 'what will I wear?!' Well Anna has just three days to decide. When you love books, there are just too many options! Fortunately, her dad knows just what to do! Cue trip to a beautiful bookshop.   [gallery ids="4400,4401"...

It's a real delight to be the final stop on this blog tour for Duncan Beedie's latest master piece, Molly's Moon Mission. If you haven't already, check out the other posts on the tour to find out more about Duncan's favourite books, illustrations, characters; check...

What’s your pupils’ favourite activity in winter? Let Raintree know for your chance to win this fantastic prize for your school! From sledding and ice skating to building snowmen and snow fights, winter is a magical time for everyone! Ask your pupils to draw or paint...

I'm delighted to start off this blog tour and I am NOT afraid to be first up, honest!!!! Now, in my own KS2 classroom, Sam Wu books don't stay on the shelf for long. They are quickly snapped up, after a keen recommendation from a giggled-out peer. After reading this...

Matt Haig and Chris Mould have created a little corker of a book which contains a couple of big messages!   The Truth Pixie lives ‘in a land two thousand miles from here…’ a fantasy land where trolls and goblins, elves and talking rabbits exist. Aunt Julia cast a...

Our #RR_North Headline Sponsors are joining us tomorrow for our #RR_Chat at 8:30pm. They've chosen Booktalk as the hot topic of conversation.     Here, RR Friend James Clements writes about the importance of Book...

  Do you love Autumn? Isn't it a great time of year to get outdoors and experience the wonder of nature? I love October! Earlier this week my Twitter timeline was full of glorious tweets about poetry - what...

Books to me are not finite objects to think of alone. Much like the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, books link us to others, to other books, to ideas and questions. So I love it when two books come along that are just meant to be next to each other on the bookshelf! Let's...

What better way to get over the reasons we need to use less plastic, to encourage our pupils to care and to be more responsible in the future than a great story. So meet Stanley. Stanley is no ordinary jellyfish. Of course he is actually a plastic bag. We follow him...

CURIOSITY The Story of a Mars Rover Markus Motum This book is an absolute wonder. I am not an avid follower of science, so I was afraid that this book just wouldn’t be for me. How wrong I was! This is the story, so far, of Curiosity, the latest Mars rover -a piece of...

The Company of Eight Author: Harriet Whitehorn llustrator: Maria Surducan To start with, the cover of this book is gorgeous! I find selecting a book so tricky; a cover like this was an instant head turner. Maria Surducan has illustrated it to perfection. The end...

As I sat with my morning brew, watching my regular visitors, the starlings, feed in my garden, I thought today was a good day to share this pair of lovely books. Each page has a sturdy lift-the-flap feature, giving an...

Boom taktak boom taktak boom Shick shak shook Do you know your heart song? Join me, through the vines (gorgeous end pages), to meet Kaya and Pak, as we learn about mindfulness. Kaya, a young, curious girl, watches...

   Can you offer a Reading Gift? Can you help us by gifting a signed copy of one of your books?  We’ll use it as a prize in a Baffle (a book raffle) to help build a library in Mozambique.   WomenEd...