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Instead of snacks and chocolates they get to take home a book to savour. The converted sweet machine, installed this week, is packed with titles for a range of ages and is part of a push to encourage children to enjoy reading. It was the idea of head Lee Edmonds who was inspired after seeing another school in the Midlands had done it. “I’ve been looking at ways in which our school can encourage kids to read for pleasure as it helps with fluency and if we encourage them, hopefully it will get them interested so they will want to read,” he said.