This week sees the start of the new football season. You’re probably already wondering what this has got to do with stationery and the things that interest us here at Papernation! 

Well, one of the things we care about is finding ways to interest kids in activities that promote reading and writing.  One idea is to encourage kids to become autograph-hunters.  Keeping an autograph book and documenting who the autograph is from and when and where the autograph was collected is great for kids.  The discipline of keeping a neat book is bound up with the excitement of getting new autographs.

And don’t worry if you don’t live anywhere near a Premership club - your kids will be just as thrilled to get the autograph of a player from your local bottom-of-the-league club.  And who knows - maybe one day that player from the youth team who carefully signed your son’s or daughter’s autograph book for may become the next Rooney!