‘Reading Round the World’ 2009
Key Facts

The Events

• 43 Events - 38 workshops with schools and libraries and five adult events
• The Audience
• 1002 children and young people took part in the programme
• 250 adults attended our five adult ‘In Conversation’ events
• 22 Schools took part – 18 primary and four secondary
• The ages of the children and young people ranged from Year 1 – Year 13 (ages 5 – 18)
• 24 children and young people in foster care
• Children with behavioural problems, learning disabilities and physical disabilities.

The Venues

• The workshops took place in six libraries – Hounslow, Feltham, Folkestone, Tunbridge Wells, Ealing and Bromley
• Twelve schools in Orpington, Bath, East London, East Sussex, Hampshire and Middlesex
• British Airways Community Learning Centre (Harmondsworth)
• The Eden Project (Cornwall)
• The adult events were held in a variety of venues - two publisher venues (Scholastic and Walker); one library (Old Brompton Library); two embassies (Icelandic and Swedish)

Events were held in a wide range of geographical areas, including Cornwall, East Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, London, Middlesex, Somerset and Surrey.

Our Artists

• Artists were invited from a wide range of countries including Argentina, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Spain (Catalonia), Sweden, Thailand and the UK.
• There were a total of 15 artists.
• Five author/illustrators  - Jutta Bauer (Germany), Lluís Farré (Spain),
• Anna Mycek-Wodecki (Poland), Pablo Bernasconi (Argentina), Hervé Tullet (France).
• One illustrator – Axel Scheffler (UK)
• Six authors – Anders Brundin and Ulf Stark (Sweden), Timothée de Fombelle (France), Jane Vejjajiva (Thailand), Fridrik Erlings (Iceland), Kazumi Yumoto (Japan).
• Three translators – Sarah Ardizzone (UK), Cathy Hirano (Japan) and Julia Marshall (New Zealand).

Our Partners

• British Airways Community Learning Centre
• Children’s Library Services (Bromley, Ealing, East Sussex, Kent, Hounslow)
• FAB (Foster a Book) Cornwall for children in Foster care
• Literature Festivals (Bexhill Children’s Book Festival and Havant Literary Festival)
• Publishers (Scholastic, Walker, Meadowside Children’s Books and WingedChariot Press)

The Workshops

British Airways sponsored workshops in and around the Hounslow area.

• A total of eight schools visited the BA Learning Centre and one event was held with children of the staff of BA
• Eleven events were sponsored by BA – three took place in libraries (Hounslow and Feltham); six at the BA Centre and one at a school (Hampton Hill Junior School)

The Local Education Authorities

• Links with British Airways and Hounslow Libraries ensured we worked with several schools from Hounslow, Middlesex.  Six schools – five primary and one secondary – took part in the workshops  - (Hounslow, Feltham, Isleworth, West Drayton and Brentford.
• Links with the ‘Picturing Europe’ exhibition by WingedChariot Press allowed us to work with the Kent Library Service where three schools visited the libraries of Tunbridge Wells and Folkestone.
• Strong links with Bromley Library Service (through one of our co-founders) allowed us to work with several schools within the Bromley area – three schools in Orpington and a larger event at Bromley Central Library with Chatterbook Groups.
• A successful partnership with East Sussex Library Services allowed us to run four days of workshops in East Sussex – three primary and one secondary school –  in Eastbourne, Heathfield, Hastings and Bexhill.
• In the South and South West of England workshops were held in Hampshire, Bath and North East Somerset and Cornwall (Eden Project).
• In the London and Surrey area workshops were held in Richmond-upon-Thames, Newham and Ealing.
• The range of areas and schools meant that we covered a diverse audience.
• Including inner-city schools with large populations of children whose second language is English.
• Schools in deprived areas where there were learning and behavioural problems
• Mainstream schools with special needs
• Children and young people in foster care

Our Funders and Sponsors

‘Reading Round the World’ was supported by the Arts Council of England, British Airways Community Investment Programme, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Icelandic Literature Fund, Japan Society, Swedish Arts Council, The Royal Thai Embassy and the Unwin Charitable Trust.