The Chris Evans/Radio 2 500 Words Winners revealed!

The Chris Evans/Radio 2 500 Words Winners revealed!

4 May

2012′s 500 WORDS short story writing competition on Radio 2 has been a huge success, with children in the UK submitting over 74,000 stories!

Read the winning entries and the rest of the top 50 shortlist here, listen to the Breakfast Show which came live from the Hay Festival here or listen to and download recordings of every story, read by the BBC Radio Drama Company here. There are some wonderful stories, and the audio really does bring them to life.

Congratulations to all the winners and those on the shortlist – you’ve all written some really wonderful stories.

World Book Day

World Book Day is the biggest celebration of its kind, anywhere. Millions and millions of book vouchers given out, great free books for kids, excitement everywhere (on blogs, in newspapers, on TV and in schools, libraries and, of course, bookshops), people coming together (including lots and lots of young readers) in a big, loud, happy celebration of reading. And we really do want you to help make this March 7th 2013 the best World Book Day ever.

This is our website and we think it’s swell, but this isn’t World Book Day’s only home on the web, oh no! In fact you can find us on Twitter, too! And Facebook! And on YouTube! And you should, because we’d like to tweet with you, and book your face and then show it videos and all sorts of exciting things!

Websites are great aren’t they? Especially websites about things like reading. And celebrations of reading. And great big celebrations of reading with millions and millions of vouchers for free books going out to kids. But you know what’s even better than websites about great big celebrations of reading with millions of millions of vouchers for free books going out to kids? Reading. So once you’ve finished on this website why not go and read a book, even if only for a little while.