2010 Summer Reading Challenge  

Libraries across the UK are getting ready to launch children into orbit for an intergalactic adventure that will keep them reading throughout the school summer holidays….with the 2010 Summer Reading Challenge. Gisela helped mark the final countdown, by attending a special Summer Reading Challenge reception at the House of Commons on 19 July 2010. The Summer Reading Challenge is an immensely popular and successful reading initiative. Now in its twelfth year it reaches 750,000 children aged four to 12 years annually via the UK library network. It is created and run by The Reading Agency, the independent charity working to inspire more people to read more, and is supported by children’s publishers www.readingagency.org.uk/children/summer-reading-challenge Each year the Summer Reading Challenge helps transform public libraries’ impact on young readers. Its challenge to children...