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Parents find reading together helps children talk about their worries

More than 700,000 Reception children will receive a free book this week, as a study finds reading helps children to open up about their feelings.

BookTrust, the UK's largest children's reading charity, is delivering 700,000 books to school starters as part of its annual Time to Read campaign.

This year, every child starting school in England will receive a copy of Rob Hodgson’s The Cave.

Research by the charity highlights the relationship between children's mental health and reading.

A survey of 3,003 parents of children aged between four and 11 found that more than a third of them (34 per cent) worried about their child’s mental health at least once a week.

Parents said the most common signs of their child being worried or anxious were:

Meanwhile, 90 per cent of parents agreed reading together was a useful tool to help open up conversations with their child.

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