children’s books – Hackney Citizen

Telling Tales: The floating children’s bookshop gathering a steady stream of followers

By Lydia Fried | Thursday 13 February 2020 at 15:33

Daisy and Jon Hollings’ roving business is ‘not your standard model, but it seems to be working’

Penguin Random House marks World Book Day by volunteering in Hackney’s most ‘literacy-vulnerable’ area

By Andrew Barnes | Thursday 1 March 2018 at 11:18

Character building: kids at St John the Baptist School dressed for the literary occasion. Photograph: Penguin Random House

As new data reveals Hackney South and Shoreditch’s serious literacy issues, staff at the country’s leading publisher are lending their time to several of the borough’s schools