When writing for learning becomes writing for pleasure

Find out how Hermelin, the Detective Mouse by Mini Grey and HfL planning (available to download) can make children want to write and write and write.

Let’s all blend together, robot arms ready...

Our latest blog, in which we share how our Early Reading Project project helps to accelerate progress in early reading in order to close gaps.

Focus pupils for phonics: are we playing the long game?

How the HfL phonics project is helping schools also prepare for Y2 reading assessment success.

Love that Book: The Velveteen Rabbit (by Margery Williams and William Nicholson, 1922)

Ahead of the HfL English advisory team’s annual conference, ‘Love That Book’, Kirsten Snook reflects on one such book that has a special place in her...

Where the wonderful things are: unlocking the potential of picture books in the primary classroom

In this blog, HfL Adviser and Professional Artist Ruth Goodman takes a look at the rich world of children's picture-books in advance of a brand new...

If print be the food of love, read on!

End of summer hols? Survived the motorway? Survived nagging guilt to work on the beach?! Settle back with Kirsten Snook, English Teaching and Learning...

On bunnies, magic and the genius of mini grey... the bad bunnies' magic show

Martin Galway suggests that some especially badly behaved rabbits might just deserve a second chance, and a place in your library, in this review of...