The book fair and the youth press opens Wednesday in Montreuil, until Monday, December 3. The opportunity to remember that for some children, reading is a weapon against the frantic pace imposed on them. Including at school.

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The book fair and the youth press opens Wednesday in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis. And for this 35th edition, slowness is put in the spotlight. Everything starts from an observation: children are in a hurry all the time, every day, every week. And in this race of speed, reading is often a refuge, a weapon against this frantic pace. Europe 1 went to meet these young readers eager for a break.

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Students in a Paris school, Louane and Elio, in CM1, tell this race against the clock. "Quickly, 8:20 am, get ready, brush your teeth, put on your hair, put on your shoes quickly, make shoelaces, quickly, quickly, quickly!" Only half an hour to get dressed, have breakfast and go to school. "My parents always say to me, 'Hurry up.' My dad wants me to do something like this: 'Go on, run!' And I say, 'Oh no, Dad, stop, relax it's good, we have all our time. "

"At school, we press them on everything"

At school too, the pace is just as steady. "Globally, children are in a hurry, and at school, we press them on everything, we run after time," concedes their teacher Bruno Golitin. "Sometimes it feels good to ask but we do not take the time to do it."

Take time for them, read, students can love that. Like Simon and Jeanne. "When I come home from school, the first thing I do, I taste, and then I go to my room and I take an hour to read.It rests a lot.It's a way of getting into our bubble and stop the time actually. "

Every week, a quarter of an hour in class is planned to devote to reading. For these students, it's one of their favorite moments at school. The show is open to the public until Monday, December 3rd.