National Year of Reading 2012

Put Tuesday 19 August 6-7pm in your diaries and stay tuned for updates on events, competitions and how your family, business, school or library can help us celebrate the importance of reading again this year. 

The Reading Hour initiative reminds parents and caregivers that reading together doesn’t have to be a massive undertaking in their busy lives, and that sharing a book with a child for 10 minutes a day - or just over an hour a week - will still give that child the best chance of becoming a good reader along with all the social and educational benefits it brings.

Thanks to our amazing friends at Colour Me Films and Cricket Australia, we gave away hundreds of free downloads of COWZAT! in honour of The 2013 Reading Hour and received loads of lovely feedback about the fun children all over the country had playing with it. A huge thank you to all our supporters and friends who made this possible.

And thanks to our supporters Get Reading! and ALIA we were able to give three families an iPad Mini each to continue their reading and playing together.

Our fearless and fabulous national ambassador Andy Griffiths will be leading a host of Love2Read stars at a fun free event hosted by the Melbourne Writers Festival and 774 ABC Melbourne.