Should you be reading poetry to your kids at bedtime? 

Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho tells Lisa Salmon how playing with words through poetry can get children ‘hooked on reading’.

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Many parents read to their young children at bedtime – but it tends to be a story they share with them, rather than poetry.

However, the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho is urging mums and dads to not only read poetry to their kids, but get them writing it too.