Premier League supports Swansea City AFC Foundation and local primary schools to celebrate World Book Day

Swansea City AFC Foundation has once again worked in partnership with the Premier League to distribute free books to local primary schools to mark World Book Day.

To mark World Book Day (March 7), the Premier League will be giving away more than 28,000 books to children across England and Wales through its Premier League Primary Stars programme.

The books have been donated to the programme by the World Book Day Charity, run in partnership with the National Literacy Trust.

As a special surprise, Swansea City mascot Cyril the Swan visited children from Ysgol Bro Tawe to hand out the books and encourage reading for pleasure among the pupils.

"Premier League Primary Stars is all about how we can use the power of sport to inspire positive learning," said Ceri Phillips, education manager at Swansea City AFC Foundation.

"World Book Day is a great example of that and we've seen every child be really enthusiastic when choosing their books, because they know they can read something that is of interest to them.

"To bring Cyril the Swan to see the children just adds an extra bit of excitement, which hopefully will encourage them to want to read for pleasure even more."