British bookstore donates backpacks to Ukrainian children across Europe 

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A small British bookshop is helping displaced Ukrainian children escape into a world of reading. The store has donated thousands of backpacks filled with books and other treasures to children who have fled warfare in their country. Leo Hornak visited Little Toller Books in Beaminster.

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