Dame: Read to teenagers
Parents should keep reading to their children until they are in their teens, says a former children’s laureate.
Dame Jacqueline Wilson, who invented the Hetty Feather and Tracy Beaker stories, has just launched her third reimagining of a classic.
The Primrose Railway Children, based on the E Nesbit book, is retold with contemporary characters from the viewpoint of the youngest child.
Wilson, 75, said she enjoyed reading to her daughter beyond early childhood. She suggested parents should read to their teenagers, saying: “Some of my most precious memories of my daughter’s childhood – and some of hers – were from reading to her long after she could read to herself.”