Summer Reading Challenge 2024
Summer Reading Challenge 2024
Summer Reading Challenge at the British Museum
The British Museum are hosting a Summer Reading Challenge (Marvellous Makers) event for families on 10 August 8 to 10am. Come along to the British Museum and enjoy a relaxed early morning event.
This event is designed to be more accessible for children and adults who are autistic, learning disabled, or have mental health conditions.
Selected parts of the Museum (Rooms 1, 2, 2a, 27, 26, 24, 25, 4, 6, 9, 8, 7, 21, 22, 23, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 22, 21, 18b, 18a, 18) will open at 8am until 10am for two hours, before the Museum opens to the public.
This event will be taking place as part of the Marvelous Makers, Summer Reading Challenge 2024.
Visitors can explore the galleries and take part in sensory-based activities including object-handling and arts and crafts.
Join storyteller Olivia Armstrong for a sensory storytelling adventure into myths, magic, and made monsters in the Enlightenment Gallery! Come face to face with a monstrous mermaid and hear their mysterious tale. Gaze into a magical mirror - what can you see? Search for tiny arrows and giant feet! Join in with the stories or sit and listen - you can choose. Be ready to feel the magic of the museum as we explore together.
The event also includes a creative drop-in workshop led by Iqra Babar, an ‘auDHDer, Muslim and Pakistani digital artist, advocate and teacher’ who explores the intersection of her identity within art and education and creates a diverse range of fictional characters for her ongoing web series Darjin.
Immerse yourself in the art of comic books.
Find out more about the Summer Reading Challenge at the British Museum
Summer Reading Challenge 2024
The summer reading challenge is a vital initiative designed to encourage children to keep reading during the summer holidays, ensuring they are ready for a great start to the new term in the autumn. Did you know that 1 in 4 children cannot read well by the age of 11? This hugely limits their life choices and skills, and we’re on a mission to change this.
Camden Libraries launched the Summer Reading Challenge at the British Library on Monday 8 July and we were joined by 250 children from Camden schools and more were watching from their classrooms.
At the event we were joined by award-winning author Hannah Lee who is a brilliant writer, but also a fantastic rapper! Hannah had brought along illustrator Allen Fatimaharan who drew the incredible pictures in her book ‘The Rapping Princess’. Allen did a draw-along with everyone. Then Jordan Stephens read us a story he has written called ‘The Missing Piece’. It was a fantastic event in partnership with the British Library.
When is it?
The challenge runs from Saturday July 13 - Saturday September 14 at all Camden libraries.
What are the activities?
This year's Challenge, themed "Marvellous Makers," is all about creativity! From dance to drawing, junk modelling to music, there’s something for everyone, thanks to a partnership with the leading arts charity, Create.
Children set a reading goal and collect rewards for reading anything they enjoy. Whether it's a book, comic, magazine, eBook, or audiobook - they all count. Read books and collect stickers and other rewards for your reading (watch out for the smelly stickers…). Add the stickers to your Marvellous Makers collector’s foldout poster to complete the Challenge.
Sign up
Children can sign up at their local library or online, and it’s FREE to take part. Go to your library this summer to get started and make this summer marvellous with Camden libraries! For more information and how to sign up, visit Summer Reading Challenge.