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All children and families should have access to high-quality books that are ‘representative of the contemporary UK’, a report says.

Editorial: The next challenge for Julia Donaldson’s monster is to get its claws into parents and persuade more of them to read aloud

Radio 4’s Today guest editors ranged from the glum to the glorious, while the station truly excelled in a day-long celebration of the Shipping Forecast at 100

Exclusive: Frank Cottrell-Boyce says Conservative funding freeze over 14 years has created ‘enormous’ equality gap

National Literacy Trust finds only 35% of eight to 18-year-olds enjoy reading in their spare time, a sharp drop on last year to the lowest figure yet recorded

Children’s publishing is awash with celebrity authors. So when Frank Cottrell-Boyce was named BookTrust’s Children’s Laureate, some fellow writers may not have been wholly delighted. After all, Cottrell-Boyce is better known by many for his screenwriting work. He has written successful screenplays for a roster of films, including Millions (2004),…

Editorial: His belief in reading as the foundation of happiness ensures that young readers could not have a better advocate

He has written hit films like 24 Hour Party People and cooked up the Queen’s Olympic skydive. But now, having been crowned Children’s Laureate, he’s on a mission to show kids that books will change their lives

The children’s author and screenwriter, who takes over from Joseph Coelho, pledged to address ‘invisible privilege and inequality’