Victoria’s Premier’s Reading Challenge 2025 is underway

Registrations are now open for the 2025 Premier’s Reading Challenge – a fun and easy way for early childhood services to encourage families to read together.

The challenge encourages families and children from birth to Year 10 to read and record their efforts online, promoting the importance of reading for literacy development.

Families can choose from more than 15,000 titles on the challenge book list or their own favourites. Children who complete the challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Premier.

This year the challenge celebrates its 20th anniversary with the theme, ‘20 years of words and wonder’, and a year of special activities. 

Services that register for the challenge can use resources including posters, bookmarks, newsletter text and checklists to encourage children and families to read at least 40 books together by Friday 5 September 2025.

A promotional kit with posters and bookmarks will be mailed to early childhood services in March to help them promote the challenge, with services asked to register at the Premiers’ Reading Challenge website. 

Sign up to the challenge newsletter and follow the Premiers’ Reading Challenge Facebook page for updates throughout the year.

For further enquiries, contact the Premiers’ Reading Challenge team by email: [email protected]