Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce has warned that the reading levels of young people are at a “crisis point” as he pushed the Government to give every child access to books as a health and wellbeing intervention.
The 65-year-old screenwriter and author, known for penning three sequels to Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as well as writing the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, is set to make a speech at the Reading Rights Summit at Liverpool’s St George’s Hall on Wednesday.
