Note - you'll need headphones if you're listening to this in the library. Otherwise Miss A. will hear it and will have to retreat to the office for a quiet little cry.
I agree, that's a REALLY good speech, much better than the normal winner prize speeches!!! I like how he was brutally honest and didn't care who he offended:) I really agree that it's MEEAAN to shut all the libraries: I don't understand why they are? Louise Year 8
I know! I thought Neil Gaiman's last year was pretty darned ace, but this was something special. I'm making everyone listen to it.
It's ridiculous, the government keep going on about how important literacy is and how important books are, but then they try to close Booktrust (free books for Yr 7s etc) AND they're closing libraries and making librarians redundant. It's idiotic! Did you know that libraries in prisons are statutory? All prisons HAVE to have a library, because it's recognised that literacy or a lack of it is a really significant factor in whether people go on to commit more crimes. But libraries aren't statutory in schools. How stupid is that?! We only have a school library here at all because we have and have had good headteachers who agree that reading is important. Grr...
That's really unfair! And pointless because children should get libraries so they don't turn into criminals in the first place and then prisons wouldn't need libraries because there would be no criminals!! Simples:)
I agree, that's a REALLY good speech, much better than the normal winner prize speeches!!! I like how he was brutally honest and didn't care who he offended:) I really agree that it's MEEAAN to shut all the libraries: I don't understand why they are?
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I know! I thought Neil Gaiman's last year was pretty darned ace, but this was something special. I'm making everyone listen to it.
ReplyDeleteIt's ridiculous, the government keep going on about how important literacy is and how important books are, but then they try to close Booktrust (free books for Yr 7s etc) AND they're closing libraries and making librarians redundant. It's idiotic! Did you know that libraries in prisons are statutory? All prisons HAVE to have a library, because it's recognised that literacy or a lack of it is a really significant factor in whether people go on to commit more crimes. But libraries aren't statutory in schools. How stupid is that?! We only have a school library here at all because we have and have had good headteachers who agree that reading is important. Grr...
OK, I will stop ranting now ;)
That's really unfair! And pointless because children should get libraries so they don't turn into criminals in the first place and then prisons wouldn't need libraries because there would be no criminals!! Simples:)
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