Get On Board
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Brand new clubs that offered teenage boys the opportunity to meet celebrities, win prizes and enjoy many activities!
Reading Communities
The towns of Barry and Llanelli organised a whole host of book-based events over the summer and autumn!
Click here for more details of the 2008 Reading Communities.
Give a Book Week
Celebrities and members of the public throughout Wales gave each other books as gifts during this special week in July!
Click here to take a peek at the week's activities
Monthly Themes
November – Screen reads
English Children
Ogi and the Rugby Match
The Bobinogi are entertaining the crowd before the rugby game between Abernog and Bobipandy. A story based on the popular television characters.
High Fliers
Specially commissioned for the first National Year of Reading, this fast-moving novel for juniors set in Tenby and Saundersfoot also features a film set, and the carryings-on of starlets caught up in mystery and intrigue as a group of children attempts to recreate an early flying machine
Gipsy Fires
A classic tale of Romany life and the clash between cultures in the Wales of yesteryear. Try to find a copy of the accompanying TV film which makes compulsive viewing.
