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It is the 20th anniversary of World Book Day, a day which is devoted to encouraging children to read more. Children are encouraged to dress up as their favourite characters from books as they head into school or nursery.

Children鈥檚 author Frank Cotrell-Boyce said: 鈥淚f your first experience of a book is curled up with a granddad, or parent or big brother, then you have a really strong connection as opposed to decoding it in school. What鈥檚 wonderful about World Book Day is that reading aloud experience.鈥�

World Book Day is a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and reading.

鈥淚t鈥檚 not about being able to perform better academically, it鈥檚 about having access to happiness,鈥� added Boyce.

This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on Thursday 2 March 2017.