READING STARS: DETAILS OF BOOKS
Leading Barclays Premiership players have been recruited to champion an innovative literacy campaign aimed at encouraging families to read together.
The scheme, Premier League Reading Stars, sees one player from each Premier League club nominate their favourite adult or children’s book.
Here, premierleague.com details the players and their chosen books. Click on the book titles to find out what the Reading Stars have to say about their selections.
FREDDIE LJUNGBERG (ARSENAL) - Cars, Trucks & Things That Go by Richard Scarry (children's book)
MARK DELANEY (ASTON VILLA) – The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (children’s book)
STEPHEN CLEMENCE (BIRMINGHAM CITY) - The Twits by Roald Dahl (children’s book)
CRAIG SHORT (BLACKBURN ROVERS) – Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (adults' book)
KEVIN NOLAN (BOLTON WANDERERS) – IT by Stephen King (adults' book)
DEAN KIELY (CHARLTON ATHLETIC) - It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong (adults' book)
JOHN TERRY (CHELSEA) - Cool! by Michael Morpurgo (children’s book)
TOMMY BLACK (CRYSTAL PALACE) – Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell (adults' book)
LEE CARSLEY (EVERTON) - The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho (adults' book)
MORITZ VOLZ (FULHAM) - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (children’s book)
CHRIS KIRKLAND (LIVERPOOL) – There’s a Viking in My Bed by Jeremy Strong (children’s book)
DAVID JAMES (MANCHESTER CITY) - The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (children’s book)
RYAN GIGGS (MANCHESTER UNITED) - A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (adults' book)
COLIN COOPER (MIDDLESBROUGH) – 1984 by George Orwell (adults' book)
STEVEN TAYLOR (NEWCASTLE UNITED) – Keeper by Mal Peet (children’s book)
PAUL McVEIGH (NORWICH CITY) - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (adults' book)
LOMANA LUALUA (PORTSMOUTH) - Tintin & the Lake of Sharks by Hergé (children’s book)
DAVID PRUTTON (SOUTHAMPTON - The Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton (children’s book)
ERIK EDMAN (TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR) – Ramses by Christian Jacq (adults' book)
RICCARDO SCIMECA (WEST BROMWICH ALBION) - Keane: The Autobiography by Roy Keane and Eamon Dunphy (adults' book)
