West Coast defender Will Schofield made a special visit to Maylands Public Library yesterday.

Armed with Sally Carbon's popular picture book 'I Want to be a Footballer', Schofield sat down for a reading session with a group of youngsters who had eagerly turned up to hear the Eagle read.

After sharing the story, Schofield also spoke to the kids about his early love of reading.

“My family are all great readers and I was always surrounded by books, so hopefully today can inspire these kids to develop a love of reading too,” Schofield said.

“I’m pulling out my favourite books for them, which is a great thing for kids to do, to always have books around them that they love and can always fall back on their favourites if nothing else grabs their attention at the time. ”