Everyone loves Books For Schools!

"I'm always in favour of people who want to give books to children. Hooray! More free books!"

Michael Rosen, author of We're Going On A Bear Hunt and current Children's Laureate

"This great new Times initiative gives more children increased access to great books and encourages reading for pleasure in schools."

Alex Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo, A Squash and A Squeeze and Tiddler

"I have always believed that there's only one way to promote literacy and that's to surround children with books from the earliest age - and that's exactly what this promotion does. The library is the living heart of any school and anything that puts more books into libraries gets my support. The Times, the Sunday Times and Scholastic deserve real credit for this initiative and I'm delighted that my books are among those they've chosen to include."

Anthony Horowitz

"I'm really delighted to have one of my books included in this promotion. I don't think we can try hard enough to make children feel that books are an essential - and very enjoyable - part of life! If we could just make sure there were promotions like this, we could make 'literacy problems' a thing of the past...."

Tony Bradman

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