Author Hopes to Rally Publishers to Help Promote Children’s Literacy: A Q&A with Jon Scieszka, the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
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Extra: Could it be that the [type of] reading that is being done by kids today is not the traditional form we associate with reading? In other words, is the definition of reading changing?
Scieszka: I think that’s directly to the heart of it. I’ve started a literacy group for boys called Guys Read (www.GuysRead.com). The more research I looked into, [the more data I found that] showed that boys are reading. It’s just not how schools define it. It’s not all novels. There are other kinds of reading. We should let kids read what they enjoy. There are graphic novels, and a lot of what kids want to read is nonfiction. …
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