2008 Year Of Reading
Screen and Scripts
Clearly promote any book that you know has ever been made into a film or TV adaptation. There is a list of The Guardian’s Top 50 created in 2006 on http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/apr/19/film.books
Display DVDs and CD sound tracks alongside if you have them.
How to write screen plays, scripts.
How to draw cartoons, animation.
How to make short films, using video cameras, sound technology, podcasts. See the Reel Books list (2005) on the British Councils website. http://www.encompassculture.com/results/?bl=1&list=55 See www.filmeducation.org for resources, events and competitions.
Careers books, Jobs in the media, Jobs in theatre.
Librarians in the North West have pioneered partnership working to encourage new readers into libraries. Time To Read is a partnership of librarians engaged in reader development activity in public library authorities in the North West Region. All 23 public library authorities in the region currently support Time To Read.