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Schools in England sidelining dressing-up for World Book Day, MPs hear

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Schools in England are moving away from pupils dressing up as their favourite literary characters for World Book Day, with experts telling MPs they feared the cost of costumes undermined efforts to increase reading for pleasure.

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