Photo: GETTY Children are now more likely to look at websites and emails for their leisure reading than pick up a book, according to the survey of their reading habits. Little more than four in 10 boys (42 per cent) regularly open the pages of a work of fiction, while among girls the proportion is only marginally higher, at 48 per cent.   Related Articles Students brains 'rewired' by web Schools shunning poetry, says Children's Laureate Michael Rosen Secondary school pupils abandoning books for the internet, report says Primary schoolchildren will learn to read on Google in 'slimmer' curriculum Primary school children will learn to read on Google Alan Stripp By comparison, websites, emails and blogs or social networking sites are now all more popular forms of leisure reading among that age group. Almost six in 10 boys and girls read websites more than once a month (57 per cent), followed by emails (52 per cent) and blogs or social networking sites (49 cent).[Read more...]