Eight fathers who attend a dads' group have written a book of children's stories to be given out free to fathers and encourage them to read to their children.

The fathers met at the group Dads' Time in Croydon, London. They wrote the book after attending a storybook project as part of the Government-funded Every Child a Talker project.

The book, Dads' Time Tales, has been produced with funding from the Croydon Adult Learning and Training Service and the Pre-school Learning Alliance. It will be distributed free within the borough.

Brendan Ruddle, who wrote Pokey the Cat, one of the stories in the book, said, 'I had a bit of inspiration and my peers were doing it, so I thought why not. It is about a knight and his niece Sadie, who gets kidnapped by a baddie, so the knight goes to save her and he is helped by Pokey the Cat.'

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