The joy of reading to children

Over the last two weeks I was privileged to take part in two local library events linked with the UK’s Summer Reading Challenge. This annual event encourages children aged 4 to 11 to read as many books as possible over the summer holidays. There’s a different theme each time to give them a steer. So far, over 1.5 mio books have been read through the Challenge.

Wild World Heroes

This year’s theme was Wild World Heroes. This made me prick up my ears in a very greedy manner! Our young heroes...