Reading nights 2021: getting children to read in times of pandemic

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Reading nights © Ministry of Culture

By: Pascal Paradou

31 min

La nuit de la lecture celebrates its fifth edition from January 21 to 24, 2021. Created in 2017 by the Ministry of Culture, this event democratizes reading, particularly among young audiences.

On the program: workshops in schools, libraries, media libraries and French Institutes ”.

Like a snub to the COVID19 epidemic which severely restricts travel abroad, the theme chosen this year is "reread the world 

Publicity

Leslie Paris

, project manager,

Nuits de la Lecture project manager

Eddy Louis Harris, American

author and documentary maker.

His last story

"Mississippi solo"

published by

Liana Levi

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in which he tells of his 4,000-kilometer trip on the Mississippi River has just been translated into French.

Valérie Andamaye

, head of the youth and audiovisual section at the St Benoît library in Réunion

Chronicle of Pierrette Crouzet "In good terms"

We could also hear an extract from the book

"The monkey and the scarecrow",

a fable written by Pierre Senges, illustrated by Albertine and published by

La Joie de Lire

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