A RISING children’s author will attempt to set a mass reading record on World Book Day, on Thursday.
Durham teacher Jenny Pearson was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award with her debut novel The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates, which was also a Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month, last year.
But she will try to set the record for the most people in an online reading video relay with her follow-up.
Ms Pearson and pupils at St Margaret’s Primary School will read in relay from her upcoming book The Incredible Record Smashers.
She is teaching half of her class online under home schooling while the other half remain in school as children of key workers.