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Want Your Child To Read? Get The Books Right

Posted at 7:42AM Thursday 27 Mar 2008

So the majority of young people aged between 11 and 14 claim they would rather read magazines than a good novel. Oh, surprise me.

What's gone so wrong with reading in this country? Part of the problem, of course, is this is the generation raised in school on "bits" and "snippets".

Anne Fine in The Telegraph




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