Wednesday, August 01, 2012

EDUCATION - Reading Not Optional for Kids

"Author Walter Dean Myers Says 'Reading Is Not Optional' for Kids" PBS Newshour 7/30/2012

Excerpt

WALTER DEAN MYERS (author and advocate): I was raised where?

CHILD: In Harlem.

WALTER DEAN MYERS: Yes, I was raised in Harlem.

JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): And, on this day, it was to Harlem that author Walter Dean Myers returned. At 74, Myers is the Library of Congress' national ambassador for young people's literature, the first African-American to hold the post.

He had come to his old neighborhood to talk with second graders at St. Aloysius School about his life at a writer and the need to read, something Myers' own father never learned to do.



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