Libraries should be ‘ringfenced and protected’, Malorie Blackman says

Former children's laureate tells Hay festival audience that her local library was essential to her career as a writer

Libraries should be ringfenced and protected" to ensure that all children have access to books, the author Malorie Blackman has said.

I lived in my local library as a child," Blackman, who was children's laureate from 2013 to 2015, told an audience at the Hay literary festival.