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Books do not have batteries. They require an interested mind to bring them to life. Without that interaction the best written books are so much dead paper
The purpose of my work is to open up and explore the experience of reading. On some projects, I'm developing ways of cracking open books for reluctant and non readers, in others I'm finding exciting new ways of enriching the experience for fluent readers.
In all this work the key is to start with the reader/potential reader and their interests, and then to provide an exciting and non judgemental atmosphere in which to engage with the pleasure that reading brings.
Recent projects:
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what would teenagers make of the ability to be linked in a phone text book group?
Everybody's Book
How can 4 families in temporary housing focus on their literacy needs in a creative way?
POWERS
Can you engage disruptive and disaffected young people in writing and reading? Can they create meaningful works in a short space of time?
T-books
A bibliography of UK fiction titles for teenagers. The 100 titles are divided into five reader-friendly themes: fear, wonder, passion, trouble, and laughs. Melvin Burgess provides the introduction.
