Six-year-old Lucy Fisher was left flummoxed today as the Prime Minister helped her to pronounce a name in a book.
David Cameron was reading with Lucy and her friends at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School near Bolton.
And as he coaxed her through The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, she giggled and took some time away from reading - and the glare of the cameras - by resting her head on her desk.
Mr Cameron read with Lucy along with her friends Joshua Davies, Phoebe Colley and Will Spibey, all aged five, after meeting teacher Kiran Kasbia.
But the pupils were not the only ones left confused about the plot of the book, which sees a princess rescue an ungrateful prince from a dragon.
"Complicated stuff, this," the PM said.
Mr Cameron was in the Bolton West seat - held by Labour in 2010 with a wafer-thin majority of just 92 - to promote the Conservative Party of making children resit exams at secondary school if they do not reach the standard in core subjects at primary.
Mr Cameron said: "There is nothing more important than making sure our young people have the skills that they need.
"The facts are these. Today you have around a hundred thousand children leaving primary school that don't have the right skills and so we are saying they must resit those key tests in reading and writing in numeracy when they get to secondary school so they get those skills...
"This will change the life chances of many, many people in our country."
