Top 10 books for children with dyslexia

Severely dyslexic Sally Gardner couldn't read until she was 14. "A book without any illustration was as good as useless," the award-winning author writes in the Guardian: "My fantasy as a child hungry for stories was that I had a kind actor living in my wardrobe whom I could take out when I needed reading to."

One of Gardner's top ten books for children with dyslexia, as told to the Guardian:

Five Children and It by E Nesbitt

Imagination, imagination, nothing quite like it for dragging in the most reluctant of readers, and E Nesbitt had it in bucket loads. The Psammead is such a wonderful character. In spelling terms he's easier to think of as the sand fairy. Recommended to be read as an ebook where you can blow the text up to a size that works better if you're dyslexic, so the words stop jumping around on the page.

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--Marshal Zeringue