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Mirror launches year-long reading campaign

16.01.12 | Benedicte Page

The Daily Mirror is to run a We Love Reading campaign, backed by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, throughout 2012. 

In today's edition (16th January), the newspaper said it aims to "open up the world of possibilities that it [reading] can bring to everyone", and was "particularly committed to helping young people learn to love reading and enjoy its endless benefits." In its leader column, the tabloid urged parents to encourage their children to read. "Let them discover the pleasure of curling up with a good book - or a Kindle!", it said. 

Also in today's paper, Duffy paid tribute to the role of her small local library in Stafford in fostering her reading habit in childhood, as well as supportive parents and an inspirational teacher at secondary school. "Reading meant to me, then as now, liberation, celebration, affirmation," she wrote. "To read is to be entertained, challenged, reminded, enthralled or changed. It requires the mind and the imagination to engage actively with the page and so it makes the thinking part of ourselves fitter."

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By Anna Jacobs

Good for you, Daily Mirror. People who don't read miss out on so much pleasure.

And given the recent research showing people who don't read fiction are less empathic towards others, particularly people from different backgrounds, it's crucial that we keep our young folk reading.

This morning I received an email from a young reader of 15, whose grandmother had got her mother and herself reading my books. The teenager said it was the first time she'd ever read a whole book in her life. I felt so proud and humble that one of my stories could do this for her. After 55 novels published I haven't lost the joy I experience when I give other people pleasure.

May your compaign prosper.

Anna

Wed, 18/01/2012 - 05:51

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