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Story Sharer Week

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Welcome to Story Sharer Week 2026, BookTrust’s annual celebration of our incredible delivery partners like you, who use Bookstart resources to help children and families discover the joy of stories.

Know an amazing Story Sharer? Nominate them!

Every day, our partners create opportunities for families to share stories and develop a love of books through events, activities, book gifting and everyday reading at home. In doing so, you’re supporting children’s development and wellbeing while creating meaningful moments that can have a lasting impact for the whole family.

Story Sharer Week is our chance to recognise and celebrate the commitment, creativity and passion of our delivery partners. Thank you for everything you do to inspire a love of reading and help give children the best start in life.

A message from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

Give your story sharer the recognition they deserve

23 Oct 2026 to 15 Jan 2027, 11:00pm

BookTrust’s Story Sharer of the Year Award celebrates an Early Years professional who deserves recognition for how they are using BookTrust programmes to bring the magic of books and reading to families, and making a big impact on children’s lives. But we need your help to find them…

Know who you’d like to nominate? Fill in the form to tell us about your chosen story sharer.

More ways to get involved

Resources for partners

Webinar: Starting Strong - Enabling Conditions for Early Years Reading

Skills and training

Watch this inspiring free session exploring how families can be supported to make reading a joyful, everyday part of home life. Suitable for Bookstart delivery partners, and for those that work in the Early Years sector.
Top tips: helping families develop a reading habit during a child’s early years

Guidance and tips

0 to 3 years

BookTrust’s National Family Survey 2026 identified five conditions that make shared reading easier for families. Drawing on these, here are some simple, practical ways practitioners can support families to enjoy books and stories together, helping children experience the lasting benefits of shared reading.
Partner resource guide

Guidance and tips

Welcome to BookTrust’s Partner Resource Guide: a flexible suite of digital resources, developed with partners like you, to support the delivery of Bookstart Toddler and Pre-schooler packs and help families to experience the transformative benefits of reading together.

The impact of your work

"As a storyteller, one of the best things to see is that interaction between adults and their babies."

Case study

0 to 5 years

Meet Rhian Green, Cymraeg i Blant (Welsh for Kids) Officer in Pembrokeshire, and one of last year’s BookTrust Story Sharer of the Year Award finalists. Here’s how her inclusive, creative, bilingual sessions introduce families to the power of stories and rhymes to support babies’ speech and language development.
"Vicky’s story sharing is inclusive and joyful. She makes reading feel like a celebration, a comfort and a right."

Case study

0 to 5 years

Meet Vicky Hough, Library Early Years Co-ordinator for Bristol Libraries, and one of last year’s BookTrust Story Sharer of the Year Award finalists. Here’s how she creates ‘magical moments’ in her community that make families with children feel welcomed and encouraged to engage with libraries and books, using BookTrust’s early years programmes.
Bookstart impact report

Research

0 to 5 years

Explore our Bookstart Impact Report for 2025/26 and find out how we are working in every community in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to get families with young children reading.

Book recommendations

100 Best Books 0–5

Take a look at our pick of the best books for 0–5 year olds from the last 100 years.
Books to promote speech and language development

Introducing children to language in a fun way