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| Footballer Marcus Rashford | Credit: goal.com |
This summer, 50,000 kids will get football player Marcus Rashford's first children's book as part of a project by his book club.
The book will be given to primary school students in the UK's most economically disadvantaged communities by the Marcus Rashford Book Club, which is managed in collaboration with Macmillan Children's Books, KPMG, and The National Literacy Trust.
Alex Falase-Koya and Marta Kissi contributed to Rashford's book The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence, which they also illustrated. In addition to providing "an escape from surroundings that may be extremely hard and to find the joy in reading," Rashford said that the book club was created to "get the proper books in the hands of youngsters who have very little access to them." For kids who find it difficult to look beyond what is right in front of them, he said that books are "a fantastic source of inspiration and drive."