Coram Beanstalk

When a child becomes a reader they get the very best chance in life

"It's lovely to do something that you know makes such a huge difference for a child. I leave the school with a spring in my step! ” Help create readers by becoming a reading helper volunteer



94%	of schools said they saw an improvement in general attitude to learning in the children receiving Coram Beanstalk's support

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£50

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Win books for your nominated school library!

Coram Beanstalk, The Alligator's Mouth Book Shop and The Bright Agency are once again offering schools the opportunity to win a set of the ten books longlisted for The Alligator’s Mouth Award 2024, which champions both authors and illustrators of highly illustrated children’s fiction. Nominate a UK-based school to win a set of the ten longlisted books for their school library here... Read more
Celebrating the success of our Reading Leaders programme

Having delivered over 40 of our Reading Leaders courses in secondary schools across the country since September, we're delighted to be receiving so much positive feedback and have even appeared in a recent Ofsted report. Read more here... Read more
Coram Beanstalk and Coram Family and Childcare develop new Parent Champions programme 'Books Together'

Coram Beanstalk is helping to develop and deliver a new Books Together programme to support parents of young children to read together regularly and encourage them to embed storytelling into their routine, through a series of informative and interactive sessions within Coram Family and Childcare's Parent Champions programme. Read more

6 ways graphic novels encourage reading for pleasure

Our friends at Parrot Street Book Club generously give us a 50p donation for every book they ship to their subscribers. Here, Emily Bright and Sarah Campbell, founders of the book subscription service for children, have written about the 6 ways in which graphic novels can encourage reading for pleasure! Read more
Welcome to a new year with Coram Beanstalk

Amy Lewis, Head of Coram Beanstalk, welcomes in a new year... Read more
'Focus on the child, not their reading age!'

At Coram Beanstalk we're often asked how best to support children in specific year groups and sometimes we can find ourselves becoming overly concerned by a child’s reading age or ability and what level books they “should” be reading. Our Learning and Development Manager, Rebecca Pedelty-cox helps unpick the idea of a 'reading age'. Read more