Facet Publishing have announced the release of Reading by Right: Successful strategies to ensure every child can read to succeed.
15th June 2017
For immediate release
New book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Reading by Right: Successful strategies to ensure every child can read to succeed.
Literacy has been recognized as a human right for over 50 years in several international declarations and initiatives. Every child has a right to read and parents, teachers, librarians, publishers, booksellers, campaigners and policy makers have a social responsibility to ensure that they are able to exercise that right.
Joy Court’s new book, Reading by Right, reveals the strategies that are proving effective in overcoming barriers to reading from birth to teens. The book looks at practices and projects from around the globe and highlights the common principles and drivers that have generated success. The book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone including the pledges, “Everyone is a reader – regardless of their background or what others might think or say”, “Everyone should have access to content to read to borrow, buy or keep” and “Everyone benefits from the social and creative opportunities tied to reading”.
Joy said, “Because I am so passionate about the vital necessity of every child being able to read, I have become increasingly concerned about those children who either cannot or will not read: the reluctant, the disengaged, the struggling, the hard-to- reach. So when Facet approached me about editing another book for them, it was these children and young people that came to mind”.
The book features an illustrated foreword by former UK Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell and contains a collection of chapters from international experts covering aspects of overcoming reading difficulties or reading reluctance in children and young people.
Joy Court is Chair of the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals Working Party. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the English Association and a Trustee and National Council member of UKLA. She is Reviews Editor for The School Librarian and author of Read to Succeed(Facet, 2011).
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Press and review copies contact:
James Williams, Marketing Manager, Facet Publishing
Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 0597
Email: james.williams@facetpublishing.co.uk
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Reading by Right: Successful strategies to ensure every child can read to succeed | Jun 2017 | 256pp | paperback: 9781783302093 | £54.95 | hardback: 9781783302109 | £109.95 | eBook: 9781783302116
The book is published by Facet Publishing and is available from Bookpoint Ltd | Tel: +44 (0)1235 827702 | Fax: +44 (0)1235 827703 | Email: facet@bookpoint.co.uk | Web: www.facetpublishing.co.uk. | Mailing Address: Mail Order Dept, 39 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4TD. It is available in North America from the American Library Association.
Contributors:
Chris Riddell, UK Children’s Laureate 2015-2017
Rose Brock, Assistant Professor, College of Education, Sam Houston State University, USA
Alison Brumwell, freelance education and literacy consultant, Leeds, UK
Wendy Cooling, Head of children’s section, BookTrust
Prue Goodwin, freelance lecturer in literacy and children’s books
Mervi Heikkilä, Director of Libraries in Seinäjoki, Finland
Jake Hope, reading development and children’s book consultant
Teri S. Lesesne, Professor, Department of Library Science, Sam Houston State University, USA
Yeojoo Lim, adjunct faculty member, Hansung University, South Korea
Ginny Lunn, CEO, Beanstalk
Hilary Mason, education consultant, trainer and writer
Amy McKay, school librarian, Corby, Northamptonshire, UK
Alexandra Strick, specialist in the field of children’s books and disability/diversity
Sara Tuisku, Finnish-language, culture and communication professional