Credits
The Reading Mission was the 2006 national Summer Reading Challenge in libraries - a Reading Agency initiative in the UK.
This website is funded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)as part of the "Framework for the Future" programme for public libraries.
Walker Books kindly sponsored Martin Waddell's hide-out in the Authors Hide-out section.
Design & Technology by Reading Room
Reading Mission illustrations by Matthew Robson
Mission Control activities and copywriting by Damian Kelleher
A link with Stories from the Web enables children to leave and send reviews of books created by the authors featured on this website.
The author hide-out creative concept and all author panoramas and video clips created by CiCi Blumstein - CiCi Blumstein Film Performance Art
Description of the author hide-outs for the accessible version by Bridget Crowley
We would like to thank the following for making it possible to create the author hide-outs in the Author Hideouts area
- Nick Arnold's hide-out
- Appledore Primary School, Appledore, Devon for their help in Nick Arnold's hide-out experiments.
- Steve Barlow & Steve Skidmore's hide-out
- English Heritage, who manage the Stonehenge site, for permission to film the Two Steves hide-out: www.english-heritage.org.uk
- Malorie Blackman's hide-out
- Bromley Central Library, for permission to film Malorie Blackman's hide-out.
- Valerie Bloom's hide-out
- The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for permission to film Valerie Bloom's hide-out: www.kew.org.uk
- Debi Gliori's hide-out
- Forest Enterprise Scotland, Cowal and Trossachs Forest District, (agency of the Forestry Commission), for permission to film Debi Gliori's hide-out at Pucks Glen in Argyll: www.forestry.gov.uk
- Anthony Horowitz's hide-out
- The Corporation of London for permission to film Anthony Horowitz's hide-out on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk - and English Heritage, who manage Kenwood House, London, where video clips of Anthony were filmed: www.english-heritage.org.uk
- Michael Morpurgo's hide-out
- Farms for City Children at Wick Court Farm near Arlingham, Gloucestershire, the location for Michael Morpurgo's hide-out, and thanks to the resident children from Ashburnham Community School, London who took part: www.farmsforcitychildren.org
- Michael Rosen's hide-out
- The staff and pupils at West Lodge Middle School for their help in creating Michael Rosen's hide-out
- Jacqueline Wilson's hide-out
- The Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green, London, for permission to film Jacqueline Wilson's hide-out: www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/nmc/
