Our new Best Practice Guide for Primary Schools ‘Getting boys to read’ offers you strategies and resources to encourage boys’ reading. New booklists for Key Stage 1, Years 3 and 4 and Years 5 and 6 give lots of suggestions for great reads that boys will really rate!

Meet a host of colourful new characters from troublesome trolls to sneezing knights, sharing bears to pilfering pirates. Your children will be clamouring for more when you introduce them to any of the titles from this colourful, annotated list. Check it out for yourself on the Booklist page for subscribers.

Now on the W4W website! New books and new theme for Spring term: Your world, my world. Thought-provoking, gripping, inspiring  – a great selection of books.

A brilliant selection of new titles for KS2 from picture books to poetry, short stories to challenging reads. This colourful, annotated list is just what you need to engage and enthuse your pupils and get them reading in the new academic year. To download your copy visit our booklists page for subscribers.

‘if you liked, now read this’….Handouts to inspire, designed by Exmouth Community College with new titles chosen by SLS staff.

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Torquay SLS Centre – we have now moved! Please contact the newly merged School Library Centre at Exeter on 01392 381394 if you need help with topic requests, school visits, professional advice or any other query.

Our new reading tracker for Years 1-3 is available now. Tracker sheets on a castle theme that children will love! Booklists for suggestions that you will love! All on one CD. Go to Sales for details and how to order.

We have just updated all seven of our SEAL book lists with fresh titles ready for the new academic year.

We have updated the Multicultural booklists for Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 and 4. A fantastic resource to support inclusion and diversity. Scroll down for our Community Cohesion Resource Bank – available to all, and Community Cohesion Booklists.

From 1st April 2011 there is a new password for the subscriber only sections of the Devon School Library Service website. If you wish to gain access to these areas you will need to request this new password from your local School Library Centre or by contacting Lee Budd on 01392 384311, email lee.budd@devon.gov.uk.