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Read to a Million Kids

'Read to a Million Kids', sponsored by Renaissance Learning, is a brand new initiative for World Book Day 2010.  The 11 £1 Book stories, read by their authors or actors, will be broadcast online during World Book Day.  Available exclusively to schools and libraries in the first instance, and supplemented with a fun quiz about the reading (see below for the quiz, please visit www.readtoamillionkids.co.uk to find out more and to register to participate. 
 
 
The films are now available to be viewed via this website. Using the links below, click through to the videos you'd like to see.
 
Picture Book Length
Thomas & Friends: Thomas to the Rescue 4:37 mins
Age 5+ Flipbook
  
Kitten Chaos 10:00 mins
Magic Ballerina: The Magic Dance 10:32 mins
The Charlie Small Journals: valley of Terrors 11:50 mins
Dinosaur Cove: Battle of the Giants 10:07 mins
Age 7+ Flipbook
  
Grubtown Tales: The Great Pasta Disaster 15:06 mins
Pongwiffy and the Important Announcement 14:39 mins
Age 9+ Flipbook
  
Jamie Johnson: Born to Play 16:10 mins
Young Samurai: The Way of Fire 15:22 mins
Age 11+
  
Walking the Walls 18:46 mins
Medusa Project: The Thief 18:57 mins

We'd like to thank Creating Studio, Twangling.com, Pancentric.com and Aubergine Films for all their help with these videos.

Please note: The Thomas story being read on the Read to a Million Kids is not the £1 book story created for World Book Day.

 
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