Geri Halliwell: 'Reading changed my life'

My mother took me to the library, so I would read at the bottom of the garden... and I really got transported.

As Good Morning Britain launches its Just Read campaign, Geri Halliwell admits that reading changed her life. A celebrity supporter of the campaign she spoke to us about the importance of learning to read and how she reads to her daughter Bluebell.

The Good Morning Britain and Sun with One Poll survey found that two thirds of children (63%) would rather play on a computer or tablet than read a book and more than one in ten children do not think that reading well is important for their future (12%).

The Good Morning Britain and Sun with One Poll survey was conducted on 2000 children age five to 11 years old. It found that:

• Two thirds of children (63%) would rather play on a computer or tablet than read a book

• Almost one in five parents do not read their children a bedtime story (18%), around four in five parents do a read a story, but of those that do one in five parents only read about once a week

• Almost one in four children (23%) do not see their parents read for pleasure

• More than one in ten children do not think that reading well is important for their future (12%)

• More than two out of three kids would like to read more (65%), of those almost three quarters would like to read more with their Mum and Dad (73%)

• Almost one in five children do not enjoy reading (18%)