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A New Way to Share Stories With Your Kids

With schools closed and entire countries locked down, the coronavirus pandemic has shifted much of the challenge of educating and entertaining children at home.

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A sneak peek at rural women and literacy in Sudan

A sneak peek at rural women ...

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Reading as Therapy – Carla Greenwood

“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.  Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity”   Beautiful quote isn’t it?  It’s a line from the book ‘Reasons to stay alive’ by Matt Haig, that follows the authors’ life struggle with anxiety and depression.  […]

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Children’s author Larissa McConnell on ‘Winston the Worm’ and the Power of Reading

As a young girl I was actually not the biggest reader… I was always enchanted by the outdoors; making mystical forts in lands far away and conquering empires with whoever my gallant side-kick (usually my poor younger brother or soft toy) happened to be that day. When I found that reading could transport me in […]

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Learning to Read Outside the Classroom

Even children who pick up minimum literacy skills are failing to become ‘good’ readers, a report by John Comings of the NGO World Education stated in April. The reasons for this are many and varied (interrupted schooling, being taught a language they don’t speak, lack of effective instruction) but one in particular stood out: reading […]

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The magic of literacy

Whenever I think back to the most important times of my life, I almost always think of the books that I was reading at the time. Just like music, books have a way of staying with us throughout our lives. I started noticing this at an early age, when I was eight years old I […]

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