Show your creative side

Reading Force, which encourages military families to share books together, is asking families to put pen to paper and write their own stories as part of a competition. Members of military families of all ages ...

Book Club: Food for thought

In this edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, our forces youngsters share their views on When Cucumber Lost His Cool by Michelle Robinson and Tom Knight. ARCHIE LINFORD (5) Archie says: “The boo...

Life of a page turner

Reading Force has proudly launched a new resource for young people aged 11 and above – a reading journal called ‘Life of a Page Turner’. The charity worked with an enthusiastic group of young people to find ou...

The teen test

As an army spouse for more than thirty years and a mum-of-four, Dr Alison Baverstock knows all about the impact that military life has on a family. In 2010, she started an initiative to keep families connected ...

Warm reception

In the summer edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, our forces youngsters share their views on The Weather Weaver by Tamsin Mori... James Wright (9) I didn’t want to put it down. Stella finds an...

High-flying fiction

In this edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, three service youngsters share their thoughts on The Boy Who Flew by Fleur Hitchcock. Here’s what they had to say… Charlie and Emilie (Both 9) W...

Book club: Special delivery

IN this edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, three Forces youngsters and their mums do a little letter reading with Dragon Post by Emma Yarlett. Here are their favourite bits… Amelia Dunn ...