Earlier this week
I remember the time I checked out four books out of our local public library and brought them home. My dad, who liked me to read and particularly read English books, was delighted and sad at the same time. He was thrilled to see me read but yet he...
It is nice seeing the Guardian record article history on the web version of articles - when was it originally published, what are the details of print publication, revisions. This shows that they are serious about what they publish as part of an...
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Whats interesting about this research is how it reinforces the importance of childhood reading and demonstrates how influenced we are in later life by the authors and books we read as a child, says a spokesman for Costa. Quite so. But why...
In the early 1950s my aunt, then aged 10, was dispatched to an interview at her prospective girls' secondary school. "And what," asked the bluestocking headmistress, "do you read for pleasure?" My guileless aunt replied: "Enid Blyton." My...
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