Calling all Teachers and Librarians! Better Reading Preview for Library and School Book Clubs

Are you a teacher or librarian? Does your school library, English department or library have a book club, or are you interested in starting one up? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then we’d love to hear from you!

What is Better Reading Preview?

Preview is our highly popular crowd-sourced book review platform. Now, we’d like to offer this to schools/school libraries and libraries to get students and the public reading, discussing and reviewing books for free. These books may either be Advanced Reading Copies – meaning your book club members will receive and read books before they’re published – or published books that suit your book club’s demographic.

We are currently taking expressions of interest for primary schools, high schools and libraries.

How does it work?

Get in touch with us and express your interest to Natalie, who runs our Kids & YA division, at [email protected]. We will then request details about your book club: how many members/students are in the book club, the age range of your book club’s members, any content that is not appropriate or outside the target demographic of your book club’s members.

That’s it! Once we’ve got those details sorted we will send the books along with some book club notes for the students.

We then will give your book club 6 to 8 weeks to read the book and return book reviews of up to 200 words each. These reviews will then be published on our site (only the reviewer’s first name and age will be used) and across our social media platforms.

How can your school/school library or library get involved?

1. Set up/coordinate a book club through your library, school library or English department
2. Contact us
3. We will find an appropriate book to suit the club’s members – taking into account age group(s), demographic and content
4. Your book club can get reading, discussing and reviewing

If you’d like to express your interest in the program, contact Natalie at [email protected].