Mosse and Rankin write for World Book Day
Bestselling authors compose stories for struggling readers
Alison Flood writing in guardian.co.uk,

Kate Mosse and Ian Rankin are among the authors who have written books for struggling adult readers, it was announced today. The short, simply-written books will be published next spring as part of the Quick Reads initiative, to coincide with World Book Day.

"It's one of the hardest things I've ever done but it's been very, very interesting," Mosse told the Guardian. She explained that writing the book in line with the Quick Reads guidelines, which demand very short sentences and no words longer than two syllables, was an "enormous challenge … it might be called a Quick Read but it's been far from a quick write for me."

Crime author Ian Rankin has also written a new book for Quick Reads: his A Cool Head is the story of a young man Gravy who finds himself caught in the middle of a robbery gone wrong. Other contributors include John Boyne with The Dare, told from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy whose mother hits a child with her car, and a book from the Dragons' Den entrepreneurs about finding success. Jacqueline Wilson has written an introduction for a title about getting your child to read, while Murder Most Famous winner and Coronation Street actress Sherrie Hewson has contributed her debut thriller, The Tannery.

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