World Book Day wants to see more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and the improved life chances this brings them. Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income. Its mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading. These charming stories for early readers evoke the wonder, muck and magic of a week on the farm. Farms for City Children enables children with their teachers to live and work for a week on one of the charity’s three farms. These books are inspired by the charity, Farms for City Children , that Michael Morpurgo founded with his wife Clare in 1976. The book is the first of many Farms for City Children Tales written by Michael Morpurgo. The children and teachers were dressed up in their World Book Day costumes for the reading (and Michael Morpurgo even 'borrowed' Mr Kimber's Cat in the Hat costume for the event!) which made the event even more atmospheric.
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