Exclusive: In an open letter to the government, current laureate Chris Riddell warns that school efforts to encourage reading is ‘being undermined through lack of economic and intellectual investment’
Children’s laureate Chris Riddell, backed by all eight former children’s laureates including Quentin Blake and Julia Donaldson, has made a powerful and passionate call for the Department of Education to end the “disadvantageous school library lottery” that has seen hundreds of school libraries lose a dedicated librarian over the last decade.
In an open letter to Justine Greening, the secretary of state for education, Riddell writes that he is “deeply concerned” the work school libraries and librarians do in promoting reading for pleasure “is not fully appreciated and, worse, is being undermined through lack of economic and intellectual investment”.
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