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June 18, 2004
Teachers and Loving Reading

BBC -- Pupils 'not taught to love books'

According to author Michael Morpurgo, "We are giving teachers really an impossible brief: we say you have to teach the children literacy, but what we are not doing is teaching the teachers to love reading in the first place." A list of ten recommended books to inspire kids to love books is appended to the end of the article.

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