
BookTastic: Igniting the Reading Spark
Child-led, celebratory, transformative — putting pupil choice at the heart of free book festivals where children vote for authors, experience stories together and leave with books of their own.

Child-led, celebratory, transformative — putting pupil choice at the heart of free book festivals where children vote for authors, experience stories together and leave with books of their own.

Transforming reading corners to encourage choice

From a roaming Book Bus to a pupil-run bookshop, this is reading made visible, accessible and part of everyday school life.

From ERIC time to book blether, this is a classroom where reading becomes routine, social and deeply valued.

Book shopping, book talk, and book recommendations by children are helping to develop a culture of reading for pleasure in Key Stage 1, in which children are able to independently choose books, talk about them and develop reading stamina