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‘Every school should have a library’: Philip Pullman calls for new UK laws

Sunday 21st January 2024

The novelist has joined fellow children’s writers Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson in a plea to ministers for action

Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, has joined fellow celebrated British writers Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson this weekend in calling on government to legislate immediately to ensure all schools in Britain have libraries.

“The school library is absolutely essential at every level of education, and it needs legal protection and status,” said Pullman. “It is too easy to think that books and reading for pleasure are not essential, whereas nothing is more certain to improve children’s ability – and desire – to read richly and well.