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Good customer service is something we pride ourselves in at Pandora Books, and it’s also something we work hard to maintain and improve. So with that in mind, it’s always really good to receive feedback from our customers, especially when … Continue reading →

This week ( January 28th to February 4th) is National Storytelling Week. The annual event, held on the first week of February was devised to increase awareness of storytelling and to educate the public of the value of doing so. … Continue reading →

This post is the first of an extended series, which features one of our best selling collections, with January’s focus being on the ‘One Two Buckle My Shoe’ Collection. This early years book collection familiarises children with an assortment of … Continue reading →

New research for the Prince’s Trust suggests that those children who grow up without a daily routine of set mealtimes and bedtimes, are more likely to under perform at school. The study was part of the charity’s annual Youth Index, … Continue reading →

About Dyslexia In layman’s terms, dyslexia is a condition which manifests itself in a weakness around learning to read and/or write. This difficulty may well be accompanied by problems in such areas as short-term memory, working with numbers, motor skills, … Continue reading →

This year saw us start working alongside book donation charity, Read International. Founded in 2004, the book charity arranges free collections from UK schools and redistributes the books to schools in East Africa, and for those that are unsuitable; recycles  … Continue reading →

New data published has indicated that three quarters of children in England that make a slow start in the “Three R’s” at primary school, fail to catch up by the time they leave school. The data, collated for the Department … Continue reading →

According to a recent report by the National Literacy Trust, almost four million children in the UK do not own a book, with the numbers of children without increasing to one in three, compared to one in ten in 2005. … Continue reading →

As we revealed in one of our news articles , a recent report from Ofsted has deemed teaching insufficient in more than four in ten schools. According to the watchdog, the quality of teaching is “still too variable” in English … Continue reading →

An international study from An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development analysis has found that children who are read to frequently by their parents in their first year of school, still show the benefit when they are 15 years old. … Continue reading →