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A YOUNG boy with Down’s syndrome has challenged himself to read 30 books throughout May to raise money for charity.
James Marsh is spending at least an hour a day working through a combination of children’s stories, tutorials and textbooks about animals and wildlife, including some aimed at teenagers and adults.
The eight-year-old, from Caversham, enjoys one hour-long session before going to bed and sometimes fits in an extra 15 minutes’ reading in the mornings before walking to Caversham Primary School, where he is in year 3.
Whenever he struggles with long words, his mother Nicole and father John help him to sound them out slowly or write them on a piece of paper.
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Princess Beatrice wrote a blog about reading for World Book Day (Image: Twitter)
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She added: One thing we’ve been thinking about at Oscar’s Book Prize is who to discover and dress up as at home – especially if you can dress up and read together with someone else! Please read on for some suggestions – or pick one of your own!
Full list of Princess Beatrice s favourite children s books
1.) Oi Frog by Kes Gray and Jim Field (Hodder Children’s Books)
Beatrice writes: Can you go green and become a frog for today? Or indeed a cat, hare…or any other creature. See if you can find a thing to sit on that rhymes with your chosen character!
Veronica Heldt reads Gorilla by Anthony Browne at London Zoo on January 23.
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From The Tiger Who Came to Tea, to The Snail and the Wale, keepers at London Zoo are reading animal adventures to stay in touch with younger visitors while they are closed.
Every Saturday and Sunday until February 21, keepers at the Whipsnade and Regent s Park zoos will read a different story book from one of the animal enclosures and post it on Facebook.
The virtual bedtime stories are a way to bring the zoo to youngsters unable to visit in person and keep them in touch with the animals during lockdown.