Mini Winter Reading Challenge

Challenge start date: 1 December 2023  

Challenge end date: 19 February 2024 

Spark a love of reading even in the most reluctant reader with the challenge that tackles the holiday reading ‘dip’. 

Children will be able to take part on wintermini.org.uk, where they will find fun activities and earn rewards for reading.  

Encourage children to borrow books from the library and read three or more between 1 December 2023 and 19 February 2024.

Adding them to their online profile and reaching their reading goal will unlock a limited-edition digital badge and Winter Mini Challenge certificate to print off and keep! 

The Winter Mini Challenge is an online, bitesize version of our annual Summer Reading Challenge. This summer, The Reading Agency teamed up with the Youth Sport Trust and public libraries to bring you Ready, Set, Read! – a Summer Reading Challenge that empowered young people to read and play, keeping children's minds and bodies active over the summer break. Following the success of this, we are delighted to continue the Ready, Set, Read! theme into the Winter Mini Challenge, brought to life once more by our amazing illustrator, Loretta Schauer. Join the six characters as they have fun on a winter walk to the library and spark a love of reading even in the most reluctant of readers.