Over the next year, Cressida Cowell, author of the How to Train Your Dragon series, will work alongside reading charity BookTrust to assist six primary schools in developing a better reading culture for pupils.
Schools taking part in the initiative - Benwick Primary School, in Cambridgeshire, Dinnington Community Primary School, in Rotherham, Griffin Primary School, in Wandsworth, Saviour CE Primary, in Manchester, Skerne Park Primary School, in Darlington and Woodchurch C of E Primary School, in the Wirral.
All schools on the programme have at least one in four pupils eligible for free school meals.
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