Cressida Cowell renews call for £100m investment in primary school libraries

The outgoing children's laureate has transformed six primary schools through her Life-changing Libraries initiative, but says a ringfenced fund is needed for lasting impact

Author Cressida Cowell has renewed a call for the government to invest 100m in primary school libraries, as her final act in the role of children's laureate.

Cowell said that it was ever more urgent to introduce a proper, lasting" library intervention, as new research shows that school libraries help to improve academic standards, as well as foster a love of reading in children.