Original ideas to instill love for books in young and old alike: 2015 saw the birth of many initiatives in support of reading all over the world. In many cases, these were projects carried out by private citizens: willing and enterprising people, moved exclusively by the desire to "infect" friends, acquaintances and even strangers with their passion for books.
Original ideas to instill the love of books in young and old: 2015 saw the birth of many initiatives in support of reading. In many cases, these were projects carried out by private citizens: willing and enterprising people, moved exclusively by the desire to “infect” friends, acquaintances and even strangers with their passion for books.
From vending machines for good reads to exchanging books between mothers, from mobile libraries to dogs, they help children learn to read, here are the 10 most interesting initiatives of 2015, which it would be nice to be able to find again in 2016:
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A little laundry, a little library: Libromat, to help African children to read and write
Evidence of literacyIn ... Laundry. It happens in Africa, in theAfrica sub-sahariana, the one where the level of schooling is very low, the one where there is such poverty that mothers are still forced to wash clothes by hand, always and in any case, the one where a meal a day is a luxury.
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The neighbors' library: how to share the pleasure of reading with those who live next to us
Do you live in a crowded city condominium and do not know how to get to know your neighbors, whom you rarely meet, limiting yourself, in case, to a hasty 'good morning' or 'good evening'? If you love books, maybe you could break the ice by sharing this passion with them. How? By throwing a "Neighbors library", just like it did a boy from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Story vending machines: making waiting more pleasant by reading
Occupy the dead time with short, good quality readings, completely free: it happens to Grenoble, in France, where gods have just been installed on an experimental basis vending machines of stories and poems, to make queues and waiting more pleasant, offering everyone the opportunity to indulge in a moment of escape and culture.
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The dogs that 'teach' reading to the most difficult students
A Chicago dogs go to school. That's right! And they go there for Inseparare. Yes, because if it is true as it is true that the dog has always been man's best friend, it seems that it is also the dog for him best teacher of reading.
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The barber who cuts children's hair for free for a book read aloud
Read in front of others, do not be afraid to make mistakes and correct yourself and discover, line by line and page after page, the pleasure of reading: this is the experience made, on an August afternoon, by the children of an American citizen, who had the opportunity to trade a haircut for a story read aloud.
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Book Exchange for children, does it work? You gift a book and receive up to 36
The mothers who attend social media these days will surely have received an invitation from some friends to participate in the Book Exchange, an initiative that consists of donate a book to a child to make sure that your own gets it in exchange up to 36.
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The Romanian city where those who read a book travel for free on buses
Promote reading by rewarding the reader (and not criticizing those who do not): this is the idea that prompted the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca to launch the initiative Travel by book, giving, for a few days, the possibility of free travel for those who boarded local buses, bringing with them a book to read.
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Libraries, traveling or not, to read books on the beach
What's a day at the beach without a good book? They come back beach bookshelves, so the books to read under the umbrella are free. Reading and sand are two essential components of summer.
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Free books to all with the 'tank': the weapon of mass education arrives in Argentina
To combat ignorance comes a tank full of books free. In Argentina, a bizarre vehicle has been on the streets for a few days. It is the brainchild of an eccentric artist from Buenos Aires, Raul Lemesoff, who literally converted a car into a vehicle of culture.
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Bibliobicicleta: bookcrossing sets the wheels, free books for children and adults in Seattle and San Francisco
Books what a passion! And the Bookcrossing it is pushing more and more to reading, taking to the streets, squares and stations free books for adults and children. There are now many solutions of this type present in cities all over the world, but those of Saint Francisco e Seattle they have something special. In fact, they are real traveling libraries installed on the bike.
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Lisa Vagnozzi