Children would rather read books that make them laugh than stories featuring TV characters, research has revealed.

The research report, issued by Pearson to mark the launch of its Read for My School national reading competition (www.readformyschool.co.uk), found that one in five of the books chosen by 100,000 children in more than 3,000 schools were in the “Laugh out Loud” category.

The Read for My School annual competition, which kicks off this term, challenges pupils in England to read as many books as they can in two months – either online from a free digital library, or offline.

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SCHOOLCHILDREN WANT TO READ BOOKS THAT MAKE THEM LOL

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To give you a hand in finding something fantastic to read, we asked publishers to put forward some of their best books and an independent panel of experts including teachers, librarians, booksellers and children’s book reviewers to read through them and select their favourites. The result is a list of 48 Recommended Reads:

Recommended Reads

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