The Marcus Rashford Book Club is a “reader-recommends” programme that has been created by the Manchester United footballer and child food poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford in partnership with Macmillan Children’s Books.
The club is to deliver the books via the children’s food charity Magic Breakfast, which runs breakfast clubs in schools across the country.
The initiative is aimed at getting the books to children from disadvantaged backgrounds to encourage reading for pleasure among those who do not have access to books at home.
It comes after a survey by the National Literacy Trust in 2019 showed that 383,775 children do not own a single book.
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