A KEIGHLEY supermarket has opened a new chapter in giving.

Morrisons has donated a bundle of books to Laycock Primary School.

The initiative, celebrating World Book Day, is part of a link-up between the Morrisons Foundation and the National Literacy Trust.

Nicole McGuinness, community champion at Morrisons’ Worth Way store, presented the books to the school.

She said: “It’s a pleasure to be able to donate these new books to a local school.

“There’s a great selection so every pupil will be able to find a story they’ll enjoy.”

Nationally, the two charities are striving to fill the bookshelves of nearly 500 primary school libraries and reading spaces with books published by Penguin Random House.

Every bundle includes a copy of Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties by Humza Arshad, who is an ambassador for the partnership.

Jonathan Douglas, of the National Literacy Trust, said: “We are thrilled to be working with Morrisons to bring the gift of reading to 125,000 children across the UK by getting new books into primary schools.

“School budgets are stretched, many school libraries are struggling and figures show that one in 11 disadvantaged children don’t have a single book of their own at home, so it has never been more important to get books into the schools that need them most. When children discover a love of reading they do better at school and later in life, so we must do everything we can to inspire youngsters to fall in love with books for a lifetime.”

World Book Day has also been marked at Parkside School in Cullingworth, where 12 teams took part in a ‘Big Book Quiz’. The winning team was The Mortal Hallowes, comprising Ruth Nicholson, Katie Hannah, Georgina Lander and Rebekah Potter. The quiz was arranged by librarian Lesley Watson, helped by students Emma Crabtree and Rihanna Hurd.