Schools
In 2011-12, every child starting reception class in England will receive a free Booktime book pack. What are you doing in your school to celebrate?
Booktime is the national free books programme for reception-aged children. We provide a free book pack for every child aged 4-5 years to share and enjoy with their family and friends. This year, we are delivering 1,380,000 books: two for every single child starting school in England.
Find out more about the Booktime books
This year’s books are the vibrant, Africa-set Why Elephant has a Trunk and colourful, engaging photo book Face Painting
FAQs
Want to know when you’ll receive your book packs? Find out everything you need to know about deliveries and more in our frequently asked questions.
Free teaching resources
Whether you’re looking for masks and puppets to make, or session ideas to support speaking and listening, our resource finder will help you search our ever-growing bank of Booktime activities.
Find out more about Booktime
Did you know Booktime is now six years old? Find out more about the programme and the people who run it, independent charity Booktrust and Pearson, the world’s leading learning company.
Featured resources
Featured resources
Download all the activity sheets and session ideas based on this year's Booktime story book, Why Elephant has a Trunk, from the Tinga Tinga Tales series created by Claudia Lloyd.
Zipped folder of 22 PDFs: 14.9 mb
Download a zipped folder of all 8 activity sheets and session ideas based on Face Painting by Monica Hughes.
Zipped folder of 8 PDFs: 4.09mb.
