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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Libraries should be ‘ringfenced and protected’, Malorie Blackman says

Malorie Blackman photographed in 2022.
Malorie Blackman photographed in 2022. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

Libraries should be “ringfenced and protected” to ensure that all children have access to books, the author Malorie Blackman has said.

“I lived in my local library as a child,” Blackman, who was children’s laureate from 2013 to 2015, told an audience at the Hay literary festival.

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