The Cambridge Literary Festival Contribution to Reading Award rewards an author for their outstanding contribution to children’s reading. So how can you expect your child to read if you don’t do it yourself?” Often when I talk to parents who are struggling to get their kids to read I say ‘do they see you reading?’ and they always say, no.
She says: “Kids should be able to see their parents reading. Robin grew up surrounded by books in Oxford, where her father, Robert Stevens, was the master of Pembroke College, and she believes that made her an avid reader as a child.
The author of the Murder Most Unladylike series will receive her prize at the festival this weekend (April 5-7) where she will be talking about her latest book in the series that follows schoolgirl detectives Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells as they solve dastardly crimes to the amazement of the adults around them. Boarding school capers, midnight feasts and gruesome murder have proven to be a popular mix for best-selling children’s writer Robin Stevens, who has has won the Cambridge Literary Festival’s first ever Contribution to Reading Award.
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