How To Fix the Reading Crisis Amongst Kids
Best-selling children's author Katherine Rundell on why every school needs a library, climate change and Donald Trump.
Only one in three children in the UK enjoy reading in their spare time 鈥� the lowest rate recorded in 20 years, according to a survey for the National Literacy Trust.
Best-selling children鈥檚 author Katherine Rundell, whose books include Impossible Creatures and The Explorer, says that represents a crisis of reading which will make it harder to tackle disinformation.
She thinks every school should have a library that is subject to an Ofsted inspection and literacy should be included in teacher training programmes to try to tackle the decline in children reading for pleasure.
Amol and Katherine also discuss why Donald Trump鈥檚 re-election as US president led her to donate all the royalties from US sales of The Golden Mole (published under the title Vanishing Treasures in America) to climate charities.
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