Children’s Reading: how do we move from Endurance to Enjoyment?
At Farshore and HarperCollins Children’s Books, our purpose is to make every child a proud reader. We are determined to encourage more children and young people to read for pleasure and have been researching the barriers and enablers since 2012.
Our 2025 ‘state of the nation’ on children’s reading habits finds both perennial challenges and causes for optimism. A smaller proportion of children read for pleasure than ever before, few parents frequently read aloud to their children, and there has been a significant decline in reading to pre-schoolers. On the other hand, we have further evidence of the positive impact of reading aloud to children, and have had success with engaging disinterested 12–13-year-old children in our recent trial, ‘Social Reading Spaces’. We believe this offers a model that can be replicated in secondary schools.
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