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How
does one encourage children to read?
This is a question we are often asked, and ask ourselves.
There is, of course, no easy answer. One can only work at
it: inspire by example, draw attention to specific
interesting things in
particular books, and so on. Our own commitment towards this continues through work and
play, at leisure and at school, where the child spends a large part of the day.
A major area which, we feel, has such potential but is
often not fully explored, is the school library. Are children excited about coming to the
library? Does it have an atmosphere that invites them to browse or to sit and read?
If not, what can we do about it?
Goodbooks
offers schools a helping hand with its School
Club programme, which has a
three-fold approach:
to make
the library vibrant, dynamic and inspiring
to create
awareness about books of all kinds
to
encourage reading
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