A nine-year-old girl has started a YouTube channel where she reads to other children because she 'wants to keep them happy' during coronavirus lockdown.
Schoolgirl Lois Russell is an enthusiastic and confident reader - and wanted to give kids something to do to stop them from getting bored while stuck at home.
"I enjoy feeling like I'm making other people happy," Lois, from Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, said.
Her proud mum Rochelle Taylor, 30, said "she just wants to bring happiness to people while they can't go outside."
Speaking to Mirror.co.uk in an interview with her mum, Lois said: "I like doing the videos because it gives other people things to do.
"I enjoy feeling like I'm making other people happy."
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Lois continued: "When people are upset, even when I don't know why, I feel upset.
"I like how reading takes me into a different adventure."
Lois said she is missing school, adding "I'm missing my friends and my work - especially literacy."
"Reading the books gives me something to look forward to."
Rochelle, who normally runs a tattoo shop but is off work amid the pandemic, said: "She is very aware that children have got nothing to do.
"She wants to help and wants people to hear her stories - she wants the whole world to see them.
"It's so nice and it's nice for her to have memories to look back on.
"In a couple of years she will know what she was doing when all of this was going on. "
Rochelle added: "She is so confident she barely needs to practise.
"Lois is a big reader, she reads all the time."
Rochelle said the idea was born out of a conversation with a neighbour.
"I was speaking to a neighbour who has a little boy, and he told me he hadn't spoken to another child during lockdown," she explained.
"I suggested his boy and Lois speak over FaceTime and he asked if she could read to him."
Rochelle said they then decided to record videos of Lois reading to send to people in their local area - before the idea grew further into creating her YouTube channel.
"She is reading five stories a day now. She is coming more and more into her stride and wants to record her videos all the time at the moment.
"The more stories she puts on her account, the more other children have so they are not bored."
Rochelle said kids spend so much time online these days anyway, so it's good for them to be watching something useful.
She thinks Lois' initiative might help families who have read all their own books and currently don't have access to more.
Lois is her own director for the videos, taking into account the different backgrounds and settings, her outfits - and even her hairstyles.
"She doesn't want them to be boring!" Her mum says.
"Lois chooses all the books, I just hold the camera."
Lois is one of six, and also enjoys reading to her siblings.
She loves the Harry Potter series but she targets a younger audience when selecting books for her videos.
Friends have been sending her video messages back, thanking her for what she's doing.
