Impossible Creatures Chosen by Queen Camilla for Christmas Present Programme

We're utterly delighted that Her Majesty the Queen has chosen to gift Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell to every child in Year 6 and P6!

The Queen's Christmas Present programme celebrates the National Year of Reading 2026 - the biggest campaign in a generation designed to inspire every child, young person and adult to discover the joy of reading and embed it into everyday life. 

The programme in partnership with @BloomsburyPublishing and the @literacy_trust, of which Her Majesty is Patron, aims to ignite and embed a transformational love of reading. 

'The Queen's gift is given at the best possible time. This is the National Year of Reading, a celebration and reminder that the things that reading gives us - creative imagination, intellectual freedom, critical thinking, ethical compassion, good jokes, delight in great ideas - must be at the heart of our future and our democracy. I'm so immensely honoured and thrilled that Impossible Creatures will be put in the hands of so many brilliant young readers.' - Katherine Rundell

More information here.