Dog-eared page-turners: how Tashi and 388 other canines are helping Australian children to read

Tashi sits on the couch of a primary school library in Sydney with a seven-year-old student.

For the next 20 minutes, Harlow – a Bondi public school student – will read to her, sounding out words slowly and giggling at the pictures of Pig the Pug looking very stinky.