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"Reading for pleasure is the most important factor in a child's educational development." A fantastic interview with , full of insights into & what really works if you want to get EVERY CHILD READING!
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(Art: Charles M Schulz)

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2019-09-16

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

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2019-09-13

"To survive, you must tell stories."
Umberto Eco
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2019-09-13

"The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth."
- Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time)
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2019-09-12

“Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.”
― Art Spiegelman

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2019-09-08

Simple, silly, and perfectly suited for its audience, Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot! will get kids reading!



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2019-09-08

Some of the wonderful original 'Busytown' illustrations from 'Nicky Goes to the Doctor' by author & illustrator Richard Scarry (first published in 1960).

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2019-09-08

Maurice Sendak's original artwork and final illustration for the title page of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’.

“Let the wild rumpus start!”

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2019-09-08

“And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.”

Preliminary dust jacket illustrations for ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak.

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2019-09-08

celebrates and promotes the importance of literacy. Our volunteers understand the importance of literacy, which is why they spend time giving 1-1 reading support to children. Helping to improve their literacy skills and their life chances.

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2019-09-08

For my favourite papyrus: a North African Greek actor's rehearsal script for the bereaved Admetus' role in Euripides' Alcestis; extra-big letters for reading off while gesticulating: 'I'll never touch the lyre again, nor lift my heart in song to the Libyan pipe"

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2019-09-08

"The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it."
Dylan Thomas
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2019-09-07

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
Alain de Botton
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2019-09-07

when you have 19 degrees and none are in literacy

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