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Jamie Lingwood, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Liverpool Hope University

How to share books with children to help them love reading

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Fewer children in the UK are growing up with a love of books.

Following a survey that showed the proportion of children and young people reading for pleasure has fallen to its lowest level in two decades, the UK government, the National Literacy Trust and other organisations have declared 2026 a national year of reading.

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