{"id":2207128,"date":"2025-12-20T23:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2207128"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:57:37","slug":"norfolk-celebrities-back-bbc-page-turners-to-get-children-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/norfolk-celebrities-back-bbc-page-turners-to-get-children-reading-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk celebrities back BBC Page Turners to get children reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity and tries to get children reading as young as possible.<\/p>\n

Chief executive Diane Gerald said Page Turners was a “great initiative”.<\/p>\n

“We can see from the data that parents are struggling to find the time to read with their children,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If I can put it more positively, all the benefits of reading mean if we can just support parents, it makes such a difference to their children.<\/p>\n

“I think the reality is people have very busy lives. We all know it’s tough out there; people juggling lots and lots of things going on, and maybe we are all spending too much time on our screen.<\/p>\n

“Maybe it’s the grown ups spending time on their screen and not showing their children that they’re reading too.”<\/p>\n

The new library in Great Yarmouth has been built as a partnership between East Coast College and the University of Suffolk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity and tries to get children reading as young as possible. Chief executive Diane Gerald said Page Turners was a “great initiative”. “We can see from the data that parents are struggling to find the time to read with their children,” he said. “If I can put it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2207130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Norfolk-celebrities-back-BBC-Page-Turners-to-get-children-reading.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207132,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207128\/revisions\/2207132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}