Marcus Rashford launches book club and publishing deal to promote education for children

Man United superstar Marcus Rashford has followed up his free school meals campaign by launching a book club that will help with educating children. English forward has teamed up with Macmillan Children's Books (MCB) to provide children from lower socio-ecomic backgrounds opportunity to embrace reing from an early . Rashofrd also spoke about his own lack of access to books as a child and mitted that once he started reing, it changed his "mentality". 

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Marcus Rashford book club: First book to be released in 2021? 

On Tuesday, Marcus Rashford took to Twitter to reveal that his "dream" h come true. In a follow-up post, Rashford stated that he has teamed up with Macmillan Children's Books to help provide more children from underprivileged backgrounds opportunity to re.  first book titled, "You Are A Champion: Unlock Your Potential, Find Your Voice And Be Best You Can Be" is scheduled to release in May 2021.

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It is believed that each chapter of  book will begin with a story from Rashford’s personal life and cover topics such as value of education, positive mentality, understanding culture as well as female role models. A post from MCB also re, "Rashford's book club will recommend titles that will champion works of young, emerging writers and illustrators from all backgrounds." Reports claim that two more books of fiction for reers d seven and above will release later in 2021 and 2022.

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Rashford mitted that when he was a child, his family needed to prioritise food over books, but with partnership, he w plans to reach out to  “380,000 children across UK that have never owned a book”. "I began reing only when I was 17 and it changed my outlook and mentality. I just wish I h opportunity to re more at a younger ," he ded. 

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Marcus Rashford free meals campaign

Rashford's partnership deal to launch a book club isn't first time that United star has grabbed helines for right reasons. Earlier this year, amid  pandemic, Rashford worked passionately to extend government's free school meals campaign to function over holidays until Easter 2021, inste of only during term time. 

Rashford h posted several messs on Twitter to express his disappointment at government t providing meals for school children during holidays and decision was eventually overturned. In October 2020, Rashford created a petition for UK Government to provide meals during all holidays for school children and for free school meals to be extended to households that have suffered financially due to pandemic.

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