A SUMMIT of best-selling children’s authors and librarians is aimed at getting young people to read more.
The North-East’s David Almond, American Adam Gidwitz and Australian Morris Gleitzman are among the biggest names at a conference being in Durham tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday.
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals’ (CILIP) Youth Libraries Group annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel will be chaired by Helen Thompson, a divisional librarian at Durham County Council.
She said: “We will be looking at how we help children make the transition from the thrill of realising they can decode the words on a page to the joy of reading for pleasure.”
There will be an awards dinner on Friday night.
Among the awards being handed out will be the CILIP Carnegie Medal, which will go to Kevin Brooks for Bunker Diary, a story of kidnap and imprisonment.
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