Read It Children’s Book Club

12/09/2026

Read It! Children’s Book Club will be kicking off the new term with this madcap story!

The Millicent Quinn School of Etiquette for Young Girls of Mad Science is a totally crazy adventure by Kate McKinnon. It follows Gertrude, Eugenia, and Dee-Dee Porch, misfit sisters booted from their last etiquette school, who are whisked away to Millicent Quibb's eccentric academy, where deadly pizza, gerbil-powered buses, and a hermit crab dean set the stage for a perilous mission to stop a sinister band of mad scientists.

12/09/2026

Thank you to Nikki at Originary Arts for putting this together to show just what Read It! Children’s Book Club is all about, and to Brighton and Hove City Libraries for helping promote Book Club Day UK and all that is amazing about books and reading! 😊📚

21/05/2026

We will be racing off to Imagination Island for Summer Term 2 in this action-packed adventure, by Mel Taylor-Bessent.

Race to Imagination Island is the first of a series, and I have a feeling this will be a popular one!

Observers! Dreamers! Inventors! Explorers!
The time has come to crown four new Protectors of Imagination Island.

Do YOU have what it takes to win the Race?

The time has come for four children to be named the new Protectors of Imagination Island. Children all over the world scour the globe in search of lightstreams (portals) to the magical island where anything they imagine comes to life. To become a Protector, they must compete in teams and complete a series of challenges to prove they have what it takes.

Dreamy 10-year-old Luca is afraid of everything, not least the lightstream he stumbles into by accident. Imagination Island is everything that he’s terrified of.
But there’s no way out. So he hits on a plan. Work out how to come LAST, and get sent home. That’s what he really wants. Isn’t it?

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07/05/2026

What an awesome afternoon with the bookclub gang had seeing Michael Rosen and MC Grammar in their show as part of the Brighton Festival. A hilarious, interactive and highly entertaining show-just amazing. And they got to have their books signed too!

02/04/2026

Next up for the book clubbers is ‘The Day I Was Erased’ by Lisa Thompson, a fantastic story of family, friendship and finding your place in the world.

Maxwell is always in trouble.

He’s a total menace to his teachers and big sister, but has a soft side, too: he rescued his dog, Monster, from being run over and checks on his elderly neighbour after school.

One day, while looking through a mysterious cabinet of curiosities, Maxwell finds himself erased from his life: it’s as if he’s never been born.

At first, being able to walk around without being yelled at is great, but Maxwell starts to miss his old life.

And, if he’d never existed, then he wouldn’t have swooped Monster out of the path of that car...

15/03/2026

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25/02/2026

What a start to the new term at Read It! Children’s Book Club! The bookclubbers were greeted not only with their shiny new books, but also some magic wish feathers and bookmarks sent from the wonderful Julie Pike, along with a personal card to them all. They were so excited and totally swept away with the opening chapters of Flame Chasers.
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20/02/2026

Next half-term’s book choice is the fabulous Flame Chasers and the bookclubbers have had some surprise goodies sent through from the author, Julie Pike. We are looking forward to finding out what they are!
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29/11/2025

Some of our bookclubbers had the best morning at the Ropetackle Centre with Kirsty Applebaum and Thomas Taylor, creating stories, exploring a range of amazing beachcombing finds and asking some brilliant questions! They were absolutely enthralled and loved being able to meet ‘real-life’ authors and have their books signed afterwards!

A superb event from Chapter 34 bookshop.

22/07/2025

We will be kicking off the Autumn term at Read It! Children’s Book Club with the brilliant Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City by Rob Biddulph, aka Draw With Rob!

Some legends are born, some are drawn...

Drawing feels like magic to Peanut Jones. But art can’t fix her problems. Her dad has gone missing, and she’s stuck in a boring new school. Until the day she finds a unique pencil turbo-charged with special powers. Suddenly she’s pulled into a world packed with more colour, creativity, excitement and danger than she could ever have imagined. And maybe, just maybe, she might find out what happened to her dad.

The first title in the series, this imaginative adventure from the creative genius that is Rob Biddulph, fizzes with magic, danger, friendship and art!

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