Famous first words: how celebrities made their way on to children’s bookshelves, 12 December). At the same time, I agree with James Daunt that celebrity titles can be gateways into reading “particularly for boys who don’t read very well”.
When I ran Dillons’ young reader competition, which invited children to write about the books they read (a young Caitlin Moran was one of our first winners), entries from boys nearly always cited a book about a sport or hobby as their first introduction to reading for pleasure; if books by figures they admire can serve the same purpose, we should not discount them.
What is needed is more financial continence from publishers, who should bear in mind their responsibility for maintaining a wide and diverse.
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