Join Red Robin books author Neil Griffiths for yet another spectacular Autumn storytime session! At Borders Bookshop Swindon, on Saturday, 25th October, between 10.30am and 12.30pm. Be prepared for a spooky Spidacular time with special spooky prizes galore! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see him in action and a chance to get your very own signed copies of his new books - There’s a spider in the bath and Where have you two been? This is a free event and no booking is required, but get there early as it's sure to be popular with Neil's ever growing army of fans. A perfect way to get you in the mood for Halloween!

This Autumn we launch our new leafy story about a baby hedgehog and baby deer. Read how Prickles challenges Antlery to a race home, But along the way they pick up more than they bargained for, as they race through woods, fields and gardens, before landing with a bump at the big old Oak tree! This 'racey' read is another winner from Neil Griffiths, with fun illustrations from Janette Louden - £5.99.

Having already established a series of highly effective and successful workshops, Neil Griffiths adds another to the list. Caught or Taught aims to raise the profile of the role of adults as key promoters of the pleasure of reading. Redressing the balance of time devoted between teaching skills and developing positive attitudes to reading. This thought provoking and practical course will explore the many ways that adults both in school and at home can play a critical role in developing children into life-long readers. For more information please download the appropriate leaflet or call 01793 421168 for more details and availability.

Treat yourself this summer and read about how Stanley always has an excuse to try and get out of having a bath. But, this time he really isn't spinning a 'yarn'! A super, suspense story that 'weaves' its way to a spidacular pop-up conclusion. Another winner from Neil Griffiths, beautifully illustrated by Peggy Collins with paper engineering by David Rose - £6.99.

Red Robin Books author Neil Griffiths will be visiting two Waterstones bookshops on Saturday 19th July, as part of their nationwide 'Super Story Time Saturday'. He will be telling his amazing children's stories from 11am at the Waterstores, Oracle store in Reading and then moving on to the Waterstones store in Staines, High Street from 2pm. Both events are free and no booking is required, just turn up on the day.

The recent week long storytelling festival to launch Swindon Libraries' summer reading challenge - Team Read, was a huge success with over 1000 Swindon school children being entertained and taking part in performances of The musical version of "The Journey" and "The Star" written by Neil Griffiths. The music for the performances was compossed by David Posnett who had flown over from Oman especially, to perform. The Swindon librarians also took part and told everyone about the great "Team Read" challenge. For more information visit your local library. The week ended with a special storytime session at the Swindon Borders bookshop

With recycling high on everyones agenda these days we've brought out a new Play on a Shoestring role play resource pack. It contains everything you need to inspire a brilliant role play area in the classroom, including 40 photocopiable teacher guidance sheets, 20 photocopiable children's resources, a CD-ROM for duplicating and an audio CD of new songs. At just £24.00 this is exceptional value for money and a great resource for any school. Other packs available are, Air Travel, Cafe, Garden Centre, Pet Shop, The Post Office and The Three Bears.

Following last year's highly successful storytelling festival, Any Time, Any Place, Anyone, Swindon Libraries in collaboration with Red Robin Books have again combined to produce another fabulous free event for schools in Swindon. " A Bowl Full of Stories", will feature the premier performance of "The Journey", a delightful new music, mime and dance enhanced storytelling experience. This will be accompanied by a "bowl full" of multi-sensory story based activities. This week long festival, from 16 to 20 June, to celebrate story and the "Year of Reading", launches the Swindon Libraries Summer Reading Challenge, "Team Read". As this event is only for pre-booked schools, Red Robin books has arranged for Neil Griffiths to appear at the Swindon branch of Borders Bookshop on Saturday the 21 June between 10.30am and 12.30pm. This event is free to anyone so you can just turn up on the day. Neil will be telling his amazing stories and performing a special "Swindon" launch of his latest book Ten Sleepy Sloths. There's even a chance to win tickets to see real sloths!

Neil recently spent an amazing day at Battersea Park Zoo, launching his latest book, Ten Sleepy Sloths, illustrated by Judith Blake. As well as telling the singalong story to a large crowd of kids and parents, there was an opportunity for all to take part in a number of outdoor games to win some fantastic prizes! Judith Blake had put together a collection of brilliant of games for the children to play, involving the characters from the book. Check out our slide show of the days events to see what fun was had! Our thanks to Battersea Park Zoo for allowing us in, and especially keeper Fiona Vella for looking after us through out the day.

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Red Robin Books author, Neil Griffiths, has been busy visiting a number of schools this year, telling his amazing stories and giving support to teachers and parents to help promote literacy in this 2008 "Year of Reading" Neil recently visited Hunters Bar Infant School in Sheffield. Our thanks to Rhyme & Reason Booksellers for helping to organise the visit. www.rhyme-reason.co.uk. Neil also spent a wonderful day in Eastbourne at St Andrew's C of E Infants School as part of their own literacy week. Again our thanks to Mr and Mrs Dork's Bumper Bookshop for Boys and Girls who helped to organise the event. www.bumperbookshop.org.uk. He will be visiting Riverview C of E Primary and Nursery School in West Ewell, Surrey, on June the 27. There will be a special teachers session between 3.45 and 5pm, so if you are a teacher in the area he would love to see you. Please call the school on 0208 337 1245 to book your place!

This year sees Red Robin Books and Corner to Learn launch their first catalogue. Packed full of exciting storybooks and teacher resources, we hope there's something for everyone! Download your copy now or email us your details and we'll send you your very own copy!

Neil will be holding 3 FREE story telling sessions at Battersea Park Zoo on Sunday 20th April. Come along at 11am, 12 noon or 2pm and join in the fun. Each session lasts approximately 45 minutes and includes craft activities, games, competitions and prizes galore! Don't miss this rare opportunity to see Neil in action and a chance to get your very own signed copy of his new book - Ten Sleepy Sloths, on sale in the zoo shop!

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Like all good retailers we like to offer our customers the occasional bargain! So for a limited period only we're offering you any of our four hardback picture book titles, at the special price of just £5.00 each (plus postage and packing). That's cheaper than our paperbacks, we must be mad! Choose from:

• Did you see them too?
• Florence was no ordinary Fairy
• Grandma and Grandpa's Garden
• Winnie Wagtail
• Offer ends 29 February 2008.

Throughout the year Neil will continue to appear at bookshops up and down the country and perhaps in some places you might not expect! His first magical story times this year, will be at The White Horse bookshop in Marlborough on 22 February. As it's half term week, why not take the chance to be part of one of Neil's story times and purchase a special signed copy of one of his books while you're there.

We start the new year with the launch of Ten Sleepy Sloths! You'll be able to singalong and find crazy creatures to calculate, on this amazing adventure into animal arithmetic. Sloths, parrots, penguins and pandas are amongst the animals, in this the latest picture book from Neil Griffiths, illustrated by Judith Blake. You can count on this being an instant wildlife winner!

A big Happy New Year to all our readers. We trust that it has started well for you and that you have a successful year ahead. Here at Corner to Learn and Red Robin Books, we thank you for your support and hope that you will continue to visit our site throughout the coming year as we endeavour to offer you the best in children's picture books and teacher resources. Our site will continue to be updated on a regular basis so please make sure you keep checking back!