Welcome to the National Year of Reading web site for MANCHESTER!!
The National Year of Reading is a year-long celebration of reading in ALL its forms. It aims to help build a greater national passion for reading in England - for children, adults and families.
In Manchester, there will be events and projects to do with reading happening all over the city, throughout the year - and this will be the place to find out about them!!
WISH YOU WERE HERE ... !
To celebrate NATIONAL YEAR OF READING, we asked our favourite Manchester-linked celebrities to send us a postcard from their most cherished book. We think you will enjoy the results ...
Look out for the postcards in & around Manchester, in coffee shops, bars, libraries, museums, art galleries, schools, colleges, pubs, trams, trains, buses etc etc. Why not try & collect the whole set???
To view the celebrity postcards, click here
Enter Our Competition!
Send us a postcard from your favourite book and you could see your postcard in print as part of the series! You could also win £25 in book vouchers to spend at your local Borders store.
You can enter either:
Or by printing an entry form and posting it to: Libby Tempest, Central Library, St. Peter's Square, Manchester, M2 5PD.
Younger readers (under 10s) are welcome to send in picture entries instead of written entries if they wish. These can be drawn on a separate, blank piece of paper (A5) and attached to the competition form where parents should enter the entrants details.
Resources for Teachers and Librarians
We hope that reading and writing groups, libraries, schools, colleges and bookshops will use the postcards to encourage reading and writing by creating displays and by inspiring readers of all ages to use the blank postcard pdfs to write their own.
To help teachers, librarians and reading group leaders we have provided a number of suggestions and resources.
Would you like to take part directly in Manchester's National Year of Reading?
We want as many people as possible all over the city, to keep a Reading Diary, to help us build a picture of what Manchester loves to read. Read more on how to set up your very own blog see what other people are writing...
