A healthy serving of belly laughs

Reading Force Book Club members satisfy their appetites for fun by reviewing Hangry by Kathryn Wanless and Fred Blunt Beatrice, aged six, and dad BEATRICE’S FAVOURITE page was when the girl’s mum turned int...

Book club: Egg-cellent tale

In this edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, a service youngster tells us what he thought of Call The Puffins! Tiny’s Brave Rescue by Cath Howe and illustrated by Ella Okstad. TOBY, AGED 7 My...

School support during separation

Families approach AFF regularly to ask for support for their child when the serving parent goes away. The absence of a parent can cause many different feelings and emotions for children, with many parents tel...

Reading Force adult book clubs

As regular Army&You readers will know, Reading Force Book Clubs are a fantastic way to have fun, but did you know that the charity runs adult groups too? You might be a bookworm, a first-time book clubbe...
Soldier and student reading together

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 ...