Sir Michael Morpurgo, author and president of BookTrust, together with the current and former children’s laureates, have written an open letter to the Prime Minister urging the Government to invest in books and reading for children.
Sir Michael Morpurgo and every children’s laureate from the past 25 years are calling on the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and the leader of the opposition, to commit to a long-term investment in books and reading for children under the age of seven.
Within the letter the authors and illustrators highlight new statistics showing how little family reading is happening.
According to the research by BookTrust, one in five children from birth to age four have a book read to them less than once a month, less than half of children are read a bedtime story, and only half of children aged between one and two from low-income families are read to daily.
