BEETLE BOY fans, assemble!🎉@MGLnrd is here to read you the first ever chapter of BEETLE BOY, and introduce you to Dr Bartholomew Cuttle and Darkus …
🐔Watch here: https://t.co/SQa5IgwrXp pic.twitter.com/mIJAwQ6Yym
— Chicken House (@chickenhsebooks) May 13, 2020
Tag Archives: Reading
MyOn books and MyOn News
MyOn from Renaissance is a huge collection of easy reading books (over 7000) currently available for free.
Each book can be read aloud (and you can change the speed as you need), there’s a dictionary, a zoom function, and you can search or browse by category.
No need to sign up for anything, just hit Read.
https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html
There’s also MyOn News which provides daily articles, again in an easy to read way, but again there are added extras: you can change the news article into French or Spanish, which can also be read to you; you can change the font size; view where the story is taking pace on a map; watch connected videos and slideshows
Katy Parker and the house that cried
More online stories: Katy Parker and the House That Cried
Katy and Patrick travel back in time to WW2, and have to try to find their way home again. Author Margaret Mulligan is reading a chapter a week (complete with dog). https://t.co/TuK2oscE25
— OLHS Library (@OLHSLRC) April 30, 2020
Free eBook: The Book of Hopes
The Book of Hopes: words and pictures to comfort, inspire and entertain children in Lockdown
This is a collection of stories, poems and illustrations from over 100 children’s authors and illustrators.
The Book of Hopes aims to comfort, inspire and encourage children during lockdown through delight, new ideas, ridiculous jokes and heroic tales. There are true accounts of cats and hares and plastic-devouring caterpillars; there are doodles and flowers; revolting poems and beautiful poems; and there are stories of space travel and new shoes and dragons.
https://literacytrust.org.uk/news/katherine-rundell-launches-the-book-of-hopes-a-free-childrens-book-by-over-110-authors-and-illustrators/
The book has been published online or free. To read it, please click on the link below
LibraryThing
LibraryThing is a website that allows you to catalogue your stuff: books, music, films, anything you want really.
If you collect something, it’s a really handy way to carry your collection around with you on your phone. You even get your own wee catalogue called TinyCat!
You just download the app for free and use your phone’s camera to scan the barcodes.
Lantana
Lantana Publishing are offering free picture books (as ebooks), along with related activities. Just scroll down their website page.
Remember, you’re never too old for a picture book!
NosyCrow Publishers
NosyCrow are one of the publishers who have free material available on their website, including a weekly audiobook in instalments, daily picture books on YouTube, craft ideas and activity sheets, daily poems on Instagram and Twitter.
They also have lots of videos on YouTube, including author readings, character illustrations, Q&As, nursery rhymes and origami guides.
See their website for further details
https://nosycrow.com/blog/free-books-activities-and-resources-from-nosy-crow/
Online comics
Comic Club have collected online comic resources together so you have a range to choose from on a single page. They include some comics for reading, and some ideas for making your own.
https:// comicsclub.blog/online-resources-2/
(NB: I’ve added a space into the link above so you can see the address)
This is another list of online comics, some suitable for primary and some for secondary pupils.
https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=webcomics-teens-tweens-free-middle-grade-YA
