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Frank Cottrell-Boyce: Children's happiness at risk due to decline in reading for pleasure

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce is to spearhead a campaign to tackle a "recession in children's happiness" He will call on the government to give a "visible sign this country values its children" Reading Rights Summit will also hear from fellow authors Cressida Cowell and Michael Rosen .

He will warn that while children fare well in reading league tables, reading for pleasure is in decline.

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87

Informative language

88

Neutral language

36

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

45

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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