Scores of children huddled around a stage set up at Bisazza Street, Sliema, to listen to a number of stories read aloud to them as part of the activities marking International Literacy Day, next Sunday.

Singers Ira Losco and Kurt Calleja, who were appointed Reading Ambassadors as part of the National Literacy Strategy, took to the stage to share their love of reading and to get the children dancing.

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