We've got some snowy story suggestions for the family to enjoy over the Christmas holidays.

If we said to you "This swatchscollop tastes absolutely filthsome", would you know what we were talking about?

Not unless you were fluent in Gobblefunk, a language made up by Roald Dahl in The BFG. But the joy of Dahls’ words are that we can piece together the meaning from the sound and feeling they give the reader, which is just one of the many reasons that children have found so much fun in his writing.

There are a number of reasons that reading is beneficial. Developing reading proficiency while young can help your child in so many other ways. Here are just a few skills a child will develop alongside a reading habit.

To celebrate the love of books and everything reading-related, we have some ideas about how you and your family can celebrate World Book Day.

On World Book Day, we remind ourselves of the many reasons for helping those around us to discover a book that they could love, that might ultimately open up a world of reading possibilities for them.