Nick Clegg’s wife has paid tribute to the Evening Standard’s literacy campaign.
Miriam González said the drive to boost reading in the capital is exactly what newspapers should be doing.
She spoke last night at a reception to celebrate 20 years of Bookstart, an organisation that gives free books to babies and toddlers.
Children’s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson, who wrote the Tracy Beaker novels, also spoke at the event at Lancaster House, St James’s.
The writer has also supported the Evening Standard’s Get London Reading campaign, saying she was “desperately sad” when it was revealed that one in three children does not own a book.
Thanks to the literacy campaign an army of volunteer reading mentors was sent into schools to give one-to- one support to children who are struggling.
