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If you're looking for ideas for planning a Children's Book Week celebration in your school or library, why not take a look at some of these classic favourites?

Download a Children's Book Week writing lesson plan for Key Stage 1, linked to the 2012 theme of Heroes and Heroines

Download some information and ideas for parents about celebrating Children's Book Week 2012

In Ideas Everywhere Polly Dunbar set out to write a story about how to write a story. Based on the idea that scraps of paper can become ideas and then stories, Polly has used this method in classrooms where children have very quickly come up with brilliantly inventive, daft and yet rounded stories.

Why continue to share picture books with children at Key Stage 2? This series of short videos provides some tips for sharing and enjoying picture books in the classroom with children of this age group.

Download the Everybody Writes guide for Primary Schools for all the information you need to develop writing proejcts using the Everybody Writes principles: taking writing beyond the classroom, giving students direct experiences to write about, finding real audiences for students' writing, and exploring writing across the curriculum.

Download the Everybody Writes guide for Primary Schools for all the information you need to develop exciting writing projects, enthuse and motivate pupils to write, and to celebrate writing across the school.

Watch this short video for a useful introduction to the Everybody Writes approach, and how you could run an Everybody Writes project in your school or local authority.

Download the 2011 Children's Book Week poster, illustrated by award-winning author and illustrator Katie Cleminson

A report by the National Foundation for Educational Research.

This report presents an evaluation of the impact of the Letterbox Club initiative in Wales. The report incorporates data collected during the Pilot Study undertaken across 2009-2010, along with further data collected in 2011. Authors Rose Griffiths and Dr Chris Comber.

A report from the Centre for Education and Inclusion Research at Sheffield Hallam University and the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, commissioned by Booktrust  to look at the  Bookbuzz programme 2012-13.

Booktime, English language handbook for the Welsh programme Pori Drwy Stori containing specially developed resources to help you make the most of Booktime in your school. The resources have been carefully designed to work alongside the National Literacy and Numeracy framework by supporting teachers and schools to embed literacy and numeracy in their setting and to engage parents in their child's learning.