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Axel Scheffler, illustrator of the beloved Gruffalo stories, has created an ebook to help children understand the coronavirus pandemic.

The book, written in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), explains what Covid-19 is, how it affects people and the measures introduced to control the spread of the virus.

Prof Graham Medley, professor of infectious disease modelling at the LSHTM, who advised on the book, said:

Helping children understand what is going on is an important step in helping them cope and making them part of the story - this is something that we are all going through, not something being done to them.