O Mundo – the World in a Library (Beglium)

With O Mundo Stichting Lezen brings a selection of ten children’s books from ten countries (Portugal, Turkey, Poland, Ghana, Italy, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Iran and Morocco) to multicultural classrooms in Flemish primary schools. The selected books enable migrant children to Read More …

Teachers’ Club (Germany)

  The Teachers’ Club supports scholastic multipliers of reading promotion with up-to-date offers, always oriented on the interests and the worlds of pupils. Registered users receive free material on the reading promotion campaigns of Stiftung Lesen and its partners. In addition Read More …

Potential of e-readers in Germany

With the use of e-readers, reading becomes more appealing for children and teenagers. This is one of the major findings of a study conducted in 2011 by the German reading foundation Stiftung Lesen on the potential of e-readers in the Read More …

Pure Text (Norway)

Rein tekst (Pure Text) is a reading campaign for high school students, which was first set up in 2004. The project is a gateway to the latest Norwegian and translated fiction, and non-fiction literature. Every year, nearly 40,000 students receive Read More …

Authors Live (Scotland)

165,000 young people watched Authors Live in 2015/16 – our series of world-class author events produced in partnership with BBC Scotland Learning and broadcast live online. Authors featured have included Michael Morpurgo, Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell, Malorie Blackman, Patrick Ness Read More …

Read, Write, Count (Scotland)

Read, Write, Count is a Scottish Government programme targeted at children in the first 3 years of primary school.  It aims to ensure that families have access to quality books and other accessible learning resources so all families can have Read More …

Book Prizes (Scotland)

The Bookbug Picture Book Prize and the Scottish Teenage Book Prize encourage children and young people to vote for their favourite Scottish books. The picture books are given out in the Bookbug Primary 1 Family Bag to every child in Read More …

Reader on the Stage (Czech Republic)

A new project prepared under the umbrella of the Growing with the Book campaign. The aim of the campaign is to guide children to reading and working with text and to enable them to understand and interpret it. The Reader Read More …

Book searcher – Boekenzoeker (Belgium)

The Book Searcher is a website where readers between the ages of 0 and 18 find reading suggestions that suit their frame of mind or interests. The site is a joint venture between the Nederlandse Taalunie and Stichting Lezen. This Read More …