Taking place on the first Thursday of October, National Poetry Day is an annual celebration which encourages us all to discover, share and enjoy poetry, as well as build a love of language. It’s open and accessible to all, adding a renewed focus to the idea that poetry as an artform adds intrinsic value to… Read More National Poetry Day- borrow a collection!
Taking place on 1st October, the theme for this year’s National Poetry Day is Vision, which can be interpreted in many ways. If you’re after any teaching resources then what better place to look than the NPD website itself: everything you might need is on their education page here (click!). We always welcome any chance… Read More National Poetry Day 2020
Two new beautiful books have arrived in our office, all ready to celebrate National Poetry Day on October 3rd. They’re not described as poetry, but the text is so lyrical and imaginative we are definitely celebrating them this Poetry Day. Every Child a Song by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Marc Martin This is indeed a… Read More National Poetry Day 2019
Today is National Poetry Day, an annual celebration in the UK, established in 1994 to inspire people across the country to enjoy, discover and share poems. There’s a theme each year and for 2018, it’s ‘Change’. The National Poetry day website has lots of resources available, whether it’s their lengthy list of recommendations, their page of poems… Read More National Poetry Day 2018
National Poetry Day takes place on September 28th and is an annual celebration in the UK, established in 1994 to inspire people across the country to enjoy, discover and share poems. There’s a theme each year and for 2017, it’s ‘freedom’. If you’re looking to prep ahead of the celebrations next week, the National Poetry day… Read More National Poetry Day 2017
National Poetry Day is an annual celebration of poetry, an initiative set up over two decades ago by Forwards Arts Foundation, and one which seeks to engage people in reading, writing and listening to poetry. Since 1999, each year has been given a theme to inspire and this year’s is ‘Messages’, with everyone encouraged to say… Read More National Poetry Day 2016
What’s that saying? You wait for a themed week and then three come along at once….? We kicked-off the 2015 Chatterbooks week with a special event at Norwich’s Millennium Library on Tuesday at which author (and Chatterbooks champion) Guy Bass appeared and spoke to lots of keen children! Here he is below, in action and showing… Read More Getting Poetic on a Friday Afternoon…
It’s Friday and here we are again having maybe overlooked our mid-week reads…but worry not! As you can see here, we used to be quite good at reviewing books at the end of the week so for the purposes of this post we’ll be conjuring the ghost of entries-past… Yesterday was National Poetry Day and the… Read More Whoops, we forgot about Wednesday…!
It’s Poetry Day today, hooray! So get rapping and rhyming away. There’s ‘A Cat Called Elvis’ By a man called Moses And he’s coming to Norfolk in the spring, ting-a-ling, To poetize to us all about poetry So look out for our publicity! (A Cat Called Elvis by Brian Moses, Macmillan Children’s Books, £4.99, 9780230751972).
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