The annual celebration of reading at a primary school has an unexpected plot twist.
Cody and Tess are the heroes of Natasha Fountain's detective story and both of them came to Wollaston Primary SchoolCody joined a sheepdog called Tess and Natasha Fountain, an author, to meet the youngsters at Wollaston Primary in Northamptonshire.World Book Day has been going in the UK since 1997 and aims to encourage young people to develop a lifelong love of reading.
She said: "We brought him on Monday - I was expecting to go through a door from the outside to the inside , but I had to walk him down a corridor. As I thought he would be, he was amazing." The idea for the book came from Ms Fountain's experience as a PCSO , when she was allowed to patrol on Cody. "So, for three years, we patrolled, and that gave me an idea of a horse investigating crime," she said.World Book Day has become famous, or possibly infamous, for requiring children to dress up in the costumes of their favourite fictional characters, but Wollaston Primary took a different direction this year.
Kate Bryan, the teacher in charge of reading at the school, said: "We just felt this year, with the cost of living, rather than put pressure on families to dress up, we would just come in our pyjamas."Kate Bryan, the reading lead at the school, and the head boy and girl dressed in their pyjamas for the dayWillow said: "I just love the topic of reading. You can go into different worlds in your head and you can zone out from everything that's going on.
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