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Bag Books - multi-sensory stories for people with learning disabilities

One of the children from Jack Tizard school enjoying a Bag Books' storyBag Books is the only organisation in the world publishing multi-sensory books specifically for people with learning disabilities. Each year we reach around 18,000 children and adults throughout the UK with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), Severe Learning Disabilities (SLD) or severely affected by Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Our main activities are:

  • the design and production of a range of multi-sensory books. We currently have 35 titles covering a wide range of age-appropriate stories. In 2010 we supplied 956 books each taking an average of 8 hours to construct.
  • providing specialist multi-sensory storytellers. During 2010, 4,061 people with learning disabilities took part in 584 of our storytelling sessions (that’s over three times as many people and over twice as many sessions as 2009).
  • training others (parents, carers, librarians and teachers) in multi-sensory storytelling technique. In 2010, we trained 991 people, over twice as many as in 2009.

New “At Home” Books

Photograph of The Captain's Hat book

In an exciting new development for Bag Books, we have just taken delivery of a lorry load of components which will be assembled to form a new type of multi-sensory book aimed for use “At Home”.

Our “classic” range of books are designed for use with groups in settings such as Schools, Libraries and Day Centres. Each book is hand-made in our workshop and takes an average of eight hours to construct; they are therefore quite expensive and we only have the resources to make a few hundred each year.

Building on our 18 years of experience, The Captain’s Hat is the first in a new range of “At Home” books designed for parents and carers. The ease of assembly means they are much more affordable than the “classic” books - just £25. We’ve also gone back to the roots of our name - the new books are in a draw-string bag rather than a cardboard box!

Justin Fletcher MBE, CBeebies Mr Tumble, said,"We all love a good story and Bag Books at Home provide a great way of making those stories come alive. I think they will bring children a lot of fun and pleasure."

To launch the new range, the first 100 copies ordered via this email link will be free of charge (one per person, UK parents/carers only). A film showing an example of this story being told is available on YouTube.

Charlie enjoys The Captain's Hat

BatteryStation.co.uk donates one year's supply of batteries!

BatteryStation.co.uk is proud to support the work of Bag Books and to provide the batteries neccessary for production. We chose Duracell batteries to allow the books to last even longer.

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