Most of us have wanted, at some point, to feel like a kid again. But in this story, he was just trying to buy some books for his young cousin, when he got told kid’s books were… just for kids. Let’s ...

Dolly Parton has been accused of “white saviourism” for giving millions of free books to poor children. The reading scheme, ...

A teacher whose job is to help children learn to read has said that some pupils swipe books as if they were iPads - as she warned that literacy rates are falling since Covid-19. Ros Boatswain, who ...

Free books would be sent to thousands of children from poor fam­ilies under a Coalition policy to fund a $3.8m Ready to Read ­program. Opposition education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson said 12,500 ...