The enormously popular and influential Blue Peter Book Awards have been recognising and celebrating the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children since 2000.
It has come to my attention that amongst the Herok crew and friends of Herok, we have a large number of animal lovers, especially dog lovers. So today we have a feature on cutting-edge ‘electronics for dogs’ …is that what Grommit was reading about?
What would a picture book be without the wonderful illustrations which bring them alive? Today we focus on some of the unsung heroes who do just that.
Following the success of our article entitled ‘Herok’s Top 10 Creative Book shelf Designs’, we have selected our top five book shelf ideas that you could make yourself on a shoe string budget… Do it your shelf you might say!
Nothing gives a more cosy warm feeling than having a book read to you at bedtime…
especially if the person reading it happens to be Kevin Costner! Let us tell you more about Storyline Online.
In April 2014 we found out all about ‘Little Free Libraries’ – an idea from America, gaining popularity here in the UK. At the time there were just 5 of them in the UK. Herok finds out how the idea is growing one year on…
World Book Day will be on 3rd March in 2016. Children of all ages will come together to appreciate reading, dressed as favourite authors or book characters.
This year Children’s Book Week runs from 6 to 12 July to celebrate reading and share the joy of books with children and young people.
As you have no doubt been made aware – and tapped for a few quid along the way possibly – the MoonWalk London 2015 was indeed joined by two new participants this year in the form of Herok’s Connie Gardiner and Laura Purrell as Team Herok Chicks.
At Herok, we are always looking for inspiration for new children’s library furniture products, and today we thought we would share some of our research into adult library furniture with you.
A Readathon is an easy to run sponsored reading challenge. Children read for pleasure and are excited by the extra challenge to raise money for seriously ill children. Children talk about books, share and swap favourites, and are genuinely motivated to read.
As we reported previously, Herok’s ‘Early Years Mobile Kinderbox Facebook Prize Draw’ was won by Christine Hart for Sherborne Primary school in Dorset. Well, Christine sent us such a lovely picture, we wanted to share…