🇦🇺 Australia 12h ago · Sam Leith

From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25

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From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25
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An unmissable book for every year of your early life – with recommendations from Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Katherine Rundell and moreThe news about reading in general, and childhood reading in particular, is not good. Last year a National Literacy Trust survey of more than 100,000 young people between the ages of 11 and 18 discovered that the number of children who read for pleasure is the lowest since records of this sort began. Only about a third of children say they actively enjoy rea

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