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Getting Reading Reading Children's Book Group; testing group for the Children's Book Award; passionate about getting books and children together
Reading, Berkshire, UK
Joined March 2015
It was a full house for our book group meeting on Sunday @FourbearsBooks We celebrated books about & featuring creepy crawlies & enjoyed creating our own spiders.
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📚 NEW: The #GreatBooksGuide 2025-26 is here! The guide is packed with 100 reading recommendations, carefully curated to engage and excite children from 4 to 11. Explore the guide here 👇 https://t.co/g0iAjMugx6
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Join us for our October Book Group meeting on Sunday 5th October, 10-11am @FourbearsBooks This session which is for 5-11s will focus on books about creepy crawlies. All children must be accompanied & places booked in advance by 4pm on Saturday 4th October. Details below. 🕷️🪲🐞
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👋#Schools! #Teachers! #Librarians! What were these authors like at #school? @mossmontmomery @WriteNat @Marielouisefit1 @km_sutherland @martin_sen #KieranLarwood 😁Join Mr Dilly & find out + #reading, laughter & #learning 👉Book https://t.co/KpDpPZ3r9W
#edutwitter
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The second annual #MichaelRosenDay is on Thursday 13 November! Register now for a virtual live event, free resources & enter the brand new children’s poetry competition. Mmmm … nice! https://t.co/Fc9f49NRPN Logo by @LaytonNeal
@MichaelRosenYes
#ShareAPoem
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We’re looking forward to the 9-11s book group meeting on Sunday when we’ll be joined by author David Barker who’ll be sharing his own favourite school stories & talking about his latest book #PaxAndTheSecretSwarm Book your places now! @FourbearsBooks @BlueGold201
Our next Children’s Book Group meetings will both be celebrating books about or set in schools of one kind & another. Bring along your favourite stories or poems to share on the 7th September for 5-8s or September 21st for 9-11s. Booking details below @FourbearsBooks
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Looking forward to sharing some moments from the Pax series as well as some of my favourite books, I read, set in schools
We’re delighted that David Barker will be joining us for the next 9-11s book group meeting to give us a sneak preview of this futuristic school story @FourbearsBooks on Sunday 21st September, 10-11am.
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We’re delighted that David Barker will be joining us for the next 9-11s book group meeting to give us a sneak preview of this futuristic school story @FourbearsBooks on Sunday 21st September, 10-11am.
Pax & The Secret Swarm is out this time next month Eek! Can't wait to share the final part in Pax's adventures in the dystopian New London. "...had me on the edge of my seat" Thomas Leeds Pre-orders make an author v happy. Just saying... https://t.co/FAo5nzBgFA
@TinyTreeBooks
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To mark the beginning of a new school year, our theme this month was stories set in school. As always we started with a book share & then completed All About Me Hoodies to be used on a new display about members of the Children’s Book Group @FourbearsBooks
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This is great news! @EarlyTrain & @Booktrust
✨ We're delighted to announce that award-winning poet Matt Goodfellow is our new #WriterInResidence! ✨ For his first job in the role, he's got a special message as the new school year kicks off... Find out more about Matt's plans here 👇 https://t.co/KHSokqJBa8
@EarlyTrain
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Our next Children’s Book Group meetings will both be celebrating books about or set in schools of one kind & another. Bring along your favourite stories or poems to share on the 7th September for 5-8s or September 21st for 9-11s. Booking details below @FourbearsBooks
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We had a lovely mix of 5-11s who enjoyed the trail around Caversham Court Gardens & sharing stories & factual books bout the seasons at our summertime Book Group session.
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It’s become a tradition to hold our August book group meeting in Caversham Court Gardens. The lovely Jo from @FourbearsBooks set up a mini shop for the event & we explored stories with a seasonal theme.
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Check out this week’s #StoryGarden booklist theme: Quests & Journeys: Daring missions, journeys and bold discoveries. Head to your library or explore the books here 👉️ https://t.co/w0hyuEqrI6
#SummerReadingChallenge
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Quick peek at how to draw Farmer Wheatley’s tractor from ‘Adventuremice: The Ghostly Galleon’. Find the full 10-minute video here - https://t.co/S3RuFTja5I - if you’d like to follow along more slowly! 🐭🚜✍️ #Adventuremice
@philipreeve1 @DFB_storyhouse
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Come to our final Planting session with remarkable RISC, to support the Story Garden Summer Reading Challenge. Plant a flower and watch it grow over the summer.! Tomorrow Friday 8th August 10.30 -11.30am FREE Suitable for all ages
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Drop into Reading Museum to see Britain's famous full-size Victorian version of the Bayeux Tapestry: https://t.co/SnPfeyM95C We also have some wonderful Bayeux items available in our shop, including cards! https://t.co/lZ0ntBiaUk
#RDG #RDGUK #BritainsBayeuxTapestry #ShopLocal
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⭐ TOMORROW⭐ Don't miss our FREE Everybody's Welcome sessions in the Forbury Gardens! Join us to make some Clay Forest Creatures - no need to book, just drop in between 10am & 3pm! https://t.co/CMDeFrBc00
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