7 minutes | Tuesday, 16 April 2019
A good book can help spark a child’s imagination and develop their literacy skills, as stories such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland have been doing for over a century.
Now entering its sixth year, Oscar’s Book Prize - supported by Amazon and the National Literacy Trust - aims to showcase and celebrate the best in British literature for preschool children.
The prize is named in honour of Oscar Ashton, a three-year-old who was on a journey home to London after a
pre-Christmas trip to see his grandparents when he collapsed and died from an undetected heart condition.
To tell us more about the shortlist and to share advice on how to spark kids' imaginations with reading, we were joined by Kirsty Cunnington from the National Literacy Trust and James Ashton, Oscar's father.