The scheme, Premier League Reading Stars, launched in 2003 to encourage eightto ten-year-olds to read books recommended by football stars, is now being targeted at the wider family. Players from the 20 Barclays Premier League clubs have selected their favourite children's books to create a recommended reading list. Early years favourites Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and Stick Man by Julia Donaldson are on the list.
Football clubs also adopt a library which receives free copies of all the titles and offers sessions where families can meet their football heroes.
The extension of the scheme follows a National Literacy Trust survey which found that a third of boys struggle to find books that interest them.
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