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Julia is a qualified and experienced Every Child a Reader teacher, who is passionate about bringing families and communities together through shared reading. This website is Julia’s quest for clarity of direction. She is seeking a future where young and old bond through books, where relationships are strengthened through shared reading, where obstacles to literacy are removed, and where reading becomes irresistible.
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A sage on the stage or a guide by your side: If you were learning to read, who would you choose?
I am fascinated by the part relationships play in the complex process – the skill and the will – of learning to read. If you retraced your personal reading journey, who would you find signposting the way for your reading development and your enjoyment of books? You may have forgotten the contributors who helped direct…
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‘Halibut Jackson’ by David Lucas: introvert brilliance at its finest
Have you met Halibut Jackson? I hadn’t. Not until I found him hiding in Dave’s basket of books in the Acorns’ charity shop in Ledbury last week. I read him from cover to cover, bought him for 50p, and brought him home with me. I shared him with the Read Aloud Ledbury group at Ledbury…
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Read with Julia at Ledbury Library
📍 Ledbury Library, The Master’s House, Bye St, Ledbury HR8 1EA
Read Aloud, Ledbury!
The ✨FREE✨ ‘Read Aloud, Ledbury’ group meets at Ledbury Library every Friday from 11:30 am – 12:45 pm (to fit in with the 476 Ledbury-Hereford bus service). Everyone is welcome and there’s no pressure to read aloud.
“Our reading group is a Friday afternoon pleasure.
The diversity of poetry and stories is interesting and mentally stimulating.
You can listen to the reading and relax.”
(A review from a group member)
(Friday 20th June 2025)
Take off anxiety,
Take off stress,
Take off pressure,
Relax into reading,
Bond through books.
(Summer, 2003)
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