Soldiers go back to school
Soldiers from local units are on a mission to support young readers and inspire them to become avid book lovers at The Wellington Academy in Tidworth, Wiltshire.
They visit the school once a week to listen to ...
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...
BOOK CLUB – A SUMMER SIZZLER
In this edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, our forces youngsters share their views on The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff...
RIO GREGORY (16)
The book was a little slow to start but when the pace ...
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...
Revealing resource
Charity Little Troopers has launched a new downloadable resource to help your children make sense of their emotions during challenging life events such as deployments, moving home or starting a new school.
The...
Calling all book worms…
Last year’s online Summer Reading Quest – which was devised to bring 8- to 17-year-olds together through fun challenges linked to books, poetry and comics – proved a huge success. The initiative was set up by S...
BOOK CLUB – ART ADMIRATION
In this edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, our forces youngsters share their views – via their parents – on Joseph Coelho’s Luna Loves Art...
EVA (4) AND ISLA (3)
We really enjoyed reading th...
A&Y Book Club: The Tickle Test
In this Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, three Service youngsters have been reading The Tickle Test, written by Kathryn White with illustrations from Adrian Reynolds.
Isla & Logan Thompson (4/...
Book Club: Cosmic comic caper
Army&You and Reading Force, the national shared reading charity for Armed Forces families, have teamed up for our popular Book Club, where young readers review the latest children’s releases. For this editi...