Better Start Bradford’s book giving project, Better Start Imagine, will provide a free book every month to children born after 1 January 2016 until their fourth birthday.
So far 1,005 babies in the Better Start Bradford areas of Bowling and Barkerend, Bradford Moor, and Little Horton have been signed up.
They will receive books by a range of children’s authors including Beatrix Potter, Nick Sharratt, Rod Campbell, Eric Hill, and Janet and Allan Ahlberg.
The Better Start Imagine project follows the introduction of a similar scheme in the Canterbury area of Bradford, which provides books to children until their fifth birthday. As of September, 811 children in Canterbury were receiving books, and 157 ‘graduates’ had reached their fifth birthday and completed the scheme.
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