Dear DOCTOR

Chris Young works as a children’s specialist for Golden Hare Books, an independent bookshop based in Edinburgh – this involves trying out all sorts of ways to get kids into reading. She also works as a part-time librarian, doing a similar job! She has been involved in setting up www.readingdoctor.co.uk (and an Instagram feed – the_reading_doctor) to address the kinds of questions on books that she gets from parents, teachers and children.

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Dear Reading Doctor,

I’ve been waiting for December the whole year because