When I was a wee lad, forty-plus years ago, the library in the small town where my family lived sponsored a summer reading contest. It was a way to keep kids off from school occupied in a place where there was nothing else to do.
The trophy always went to a classmate of mine called Charlene because she went to massive hauls of kids' books. If a book has thirty pages and lots of pictures, racking up a hundred or more is a no-sweat task.
Now bookstores are closing right and left and the British government is closing libraries but simultaneously calling on UK kids to read fifty books a year.
The trophy always went to a classmate of mine called Charlene because she went to massive hauls of kids' books. If a book has thirty pages and lots of pictures, racking up a hundred or more is a no-sweat task.
Now bookstores are closing right and left and the British government is closing libraries but simultaneously calling on UK kids to read fifty books a year.
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