Thursday, March 3, 2011

A website on children’s literature with the young as curators


GANGTOK, 03 March: One might think reading books as a hobby or interest is no longer considered ‘cool’ especially when it comes to youngsters but a research carried out for World Book Day suggests otherwise. The very technologies that led kids away from books are also bringing them back to it. According to www.guardian.co.uk, a research that was carried out amongst 505 teens in the UK aged between 13 and 18, 40.8% had read a book on a computer, 17.2% on a mobile phone and 13.3% on a Tablet or iPad.
Now the Guardian is launching the first national newspaper books website devoted entirely to young readers on World Book Day as observed in the UK and Ireland on 03 March [while the rest of the world observes it on 23 April].

“The Children's Books website will be an adult-free zone, with contributions from an editorial panel of young people “curators” from all over the world. So far, 100 have signed up from as far afield as Peru and Egypt, and have been busily at work deciding which books they want to discuss and how to do it,” according to the Guardian website.
The site will be divided into three reading "zones": seven and under, eight to 12 and 13-plus. Children under-seven who cannot be expected to write their own reviews can be assisted by someone older to report their views.
The children's website will be at guardian.co.uk/childrensbooks from Thursday. To get involved, or express your views you can send an email to childrens.books@guardian.co.uk

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