As a teacher now, I know most kids would rather read a real novel about toys and TV characters they know and love, than a poorly ghostwritten kids’ story fronted by a TV celebrity their parents like.
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Fewer and fewer children are reading for pleasure, in large part because the education system has failed them, but also in no small part because a TV celebrity riding on a ghostwriter’s skills and a jovial TV persona will never match the magic of a JK Rowling or an Enid Blyton, that wrote for children, not for fame and fortune.
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As a kid I filled exercise book after exercise book with stories, that on occasion impressed my teachers, but being a published author, or indeed any form of writing for a living, was never an option when it came to discussing my future with the careers officer, whose imagination ran the full gamut of job options from road sweeper to sweeper of roads to highway hygienist, with the promise of one day owning my own broom.
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Not, of course, that we in the west are in any position to assume the moral high ground, given the recent track record in the United States for banning children’s books.
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Other book fair organisers would do well to look closely at how Bologna is transitioning from an...
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What is up with the youth of today? Don’t they understand that reading is something you have to do...
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Per UNICEF, 75 per cent of children in Nigeria, aged 7 to 14 years, cannot read a simple sentence...
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Issues of political censorship notwithstanding, Vietnam is an exciting emerging market looking to...
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The proposed new TV series is chance to refresh Harry Potter and create a wizard hero fit for the...
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With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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HarperCollins, is this deliberate obtuseness, unfathomable dumbness or just plain stupidity? 8...
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This will be the first year since the pandemic began that China’s big book fairs have...
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