Laura added: “She’s generally in bed by 7.30pm but if you don’t remember to go upstairs and tell her to turn the light off she’ll still be reading by midnight - which makes her very grumpy in the morning,” she said.įaith, who has a sister, Elsa, eight, and two brothers, James, six, and Cormac, five, has even had a book dedicated to her by one of her favourite authors, Holly Webb.įaith said: “It was amazing and brilliant, I just sat there saying ‘wow’.”Īlthough she never set out to read so many books, she is now aiming even higher for this year. Reading certainly keeps her quiet at home, but Laura admits it can be a bit frustrating.
It finally did click for her - and then it just went off into the stratosphere.”įaith is now rarely without a book in her hand, squeezing as many chapters as she can into any spare time between school, karate, gymnastics and drumming. “We just read to her instead to help her enjoy books rather than making it a big deal. I think the main thing was we didn’t push her and they didn’t make her read all the time at school. “When they tested her it came back as having dyslexic tendencies. When she was about six or seven, she could hardly read at all and at school they said she might be dyslexic. The achievement is all the more remarkable considering the Mobberley Primary School pupil once struggled with literacy. “It’s really hard to choose just one favourite but I’ll say the Harry Potter books, especially the first one because I love magic and adventure, and it has both, which makes it one of the best.” Faith, from Ashley, Altrincham, said: “It gives you new ideas and you can get lost in another world, which is really fun.
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