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Establishing a ‘reading culture’ is vital for pupils’ development, but schools face barriers to making this a reality, says the children’s author

Speaking at the inaugural Book Trust Annual Lecture, one bestselling author says there has been a growth in reading and literacy, but it has not been all-inclusive - far from it

To write, you have to ‘listen to people’, says Michael Morpurgo. The former teacher tells Helen Ward how a chance meeting in a pub helped inspire War Horse, now an Oscar-nominated film

Such tests keep staff and pupils shackled to a narrow curriculum, argues a former children’s laureate