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Hello Reading Force families!  I'm Emma, I'm a Pad Brat and I write blogs for Reading Force about reading and Forces life. Last month I spontaneously decided to visit my old quarter in Wiltshire. The [...]

Hello, I’m Annabel Hall, a Service Pupils' Champion in North Yorkshire.  The autumn term got off to a great start with the visit of award winning illustrator, Lynne Chapman, and Reading Force staff to two [...]

  We are very pleased to announce that Annington, the owners of the MOD's Married Quarters Estate, is supporting Reading Force for the next three years. James Hopkins, CEO of Annington, says: “We were impressed [...]

  Need some inspiration for books to share during your summer holidays? Read on to discover more…       Ages 4 to 7   What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday by Julia Donaldson  A brilliant [...]

  Hello Reading Force families!  I'm Emma, I'm a Pad Brat and I will be writing a regular blog about reading and Forces life. I was relatively lucky, I only went to three primary schools, [...]

  Hello Reading Force families! I’m Pam, a proud and happy member of the Reading Force team and my role is Schools Ambassador. My role is primarily to visit schools to talk to teachers, pastoral [...]

We’re delighted to welcome author Amanda Prowse as this month's guest blogger. I grew up in a house without books – apart from The Littlewoods catalogue and a copy of a Haynes car manual! My [...]

Bother, Trouble and an RAF childhood Flying and travel are in my blood – as the daughter of an RAF officer and a Canadian teacher, I visited four of the world’s continents before starting school. [...]

Hello Reading Force families!  I'm Emma, I'm a Pad Brat and I will be writing a monthly blog about reading and Forces life. School has been back in session for a month now and I’m [...]

Hi! I'm Emma, I'm 27, a Pad Brat and I will be writing a monthly blog about reading and Forces life. To tell you a bit about my background: my Dad was in the Army, he [...]

The Reading Force team asked me if I’d be available to work with forces children at Hornbill School in Brunei in March this year. As a forces child myself, I was delighted to hear more about Reading [...]

Need some inspiration to choose a new book from the library or bookshop? We’ve picked a handful of books we think you’ll love. The Lie Tree, for teens and young adults, is the first children’s [...]

The vote in favour of air strikes against Syria had an immediate impact on one group of people: those charged with doing the striking. And while our first thoughts may be of aircrews required to [...]

Now is the time to take out Christmas books from the library or dig out the ones you put away with the Christmas decorations last year – or treat the family to a new book. [...]

On Friday 9th October 2015 pupils in schools all over the UK will be showing their support for soldiers, sailors, airmen and their families, by dressing up in Red, White & Blue and donating £1 [...]

Children’s author, Tom Palmer, blogs about why he is so pleased to be part of the Reading Force Roadshow. There is no way I could have written my Rugby Academy series of books without the [...]

A child being able to hear the voice of their parent who is posted away from home is very precious and helps them feel closer. Story book Waves makes this happen by recording Royal Navy [...]

It’s never too early to share books with your little ones, and that’s why we’ve created Reading Force little ones. We’ve created a new colourful scrapbook for pre-school aged children – it’s similar to our signature [...]

On Friday 10th October 2014 pupils in over 600 schools in the UK will be showing their support for soldiers, sailors, airmen and their families, by dressing up in Red, White & Blue and donating [...]

Saturday 7th June was my first Reading Force event. I confess that I was curious and concerned as to how it would all go. But all trepidation was instantly swept away by the wave of [...]

Thank you to all those who submitted their finished scrapbooks to the April competition. We have read and looked at every single scrapbook – they came from all over the country and from Service families [...]

If your scrapbook is lying around at home and you like the idea of using it and want to enter the Scrapbook Competition, but you’re not sure what to put in it, read on... Hundreds [...]

Thank you to all the families who entered the 2013 Scrapbook Competition. It has been a pleasure to look at the scrapbooks and fantastic to see all the different ways families have taken part – [...]

Free books for HMS Heroes! That’s right – we’re giving every Hero in Plymouth and North Yorkshire a free book. Since we found out about the fantastic HMS Heroes groups springing up all over the [...]