With the reopening of schools, and one year after its debut, the project returns The Bookseller School dedicated to promoting a passion for reading among high school girls and boys, and which is aimed at teachers, families, educators, associations and those who work in bookshops and libraries.
Considering the crucial role of books and stories in the growth path of adolescents, since its online debut in 2014, the platform ilLibraio.it pays particular attention, also on the social profiles of the site published by Mauri Spagnol Publishing Group, to encourage reading among young people and debates related to school and education.
The aim of the project is to propose an online space entirely dedicated to promoting reading in high schools, accompanied by an innovative digital tool, the periodic guide Reading the worldto present teachers, and anyone who interacts with students, with a selection of readings and special content.
So, after the first two issues of Reading the world and participation in the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and the Turin International Book Fair with two dedicated meetings, the guide returns with a new issue, the third, which gives space to around 50 reading suggestions, inserted within 6 thematic areas, including “Living with feelings”, “Living with nature”, “Living with one’s own identity” and “Living with the ideas of others”.
Many of the selected works propose – in narrative or essay form – themes linked to civic education and “key citizenship skills”, as well as to 17 goals of the UN Agenda 2030.
Browsing through the third issue of Reading the world you will find some new features: suggestions for teachers’ updating, a selection of recommended works to read in class and a special dedicated to the topicality of the classics of seventeenth-century theatre. The books included in the guide are presented with information on the content and the topics, a series of key words that can help in the choice and some didactic and methodological suggestions, useful for classroom work during the next school year.
There is also no shortage of exclusive author interventions, this time signed by writers such as Ritanna Armeni, Gherardo Colombo, Giuseppe Festa, Eugenio Radin and Luca Trapanese. The guide is edited by Lucia Tomelleri, while the educational consultancy of the project is entrusted to Glory Mary Ghioniliterature teacher and founder of the site Criticaletteraria.org as well as a collaborator of various newspapers.
TO The Bookseller School a dedicated newsletter is linked, which allows you to receive the guide in advance Reading the world and other exclusive content. Not only that: as a gift to those subscribed to the newsletter, there is also the ebook of a classic of literature, I Gulliver’s Travels (Garzanti) by Jonathan Swift.
Stephen Mauri, president and CEO of the Mauri Spagnol publishing group and director of the magazine The Bookseller: «I really appreciate the words of Pope Francis when they are heartfelt and reflect his human experience. And those he spent to remind educators how precious reading is are beautiful. In particular, he emphasizes the formative importance of reading novels, the ability that a good book has to make the person flourish who, by reading, gives life to the story traced by the author. Powerful and authentic words that make us feel right when we propose this guide to all educators».
The Bookseller Schoolit should be remembered, is connected to the project Readers are made by Salani, conceived by the publishing house of the Mauri Spagnol publishing group, which is back with its fourth edition, and has already hosted hundreds of meetings organized in schools. It is aimed at teachers and promoters of reading in the world of primary and lower secondary schools: thanks to the rich and constantly updated catalogue, downloadable for free on the dedicated website, it offers reading paths and useful tools to enrich the educational offer.
The jewel in the crown of the project is the possibility of bringing the authors of the catalogue into the classrooms. Salani and brands such as Ape Junior, Garzanti, Guanda, La Coccinella, Salani Warehouses, North-South and Tre60. The meeting with the author is in fact the end of a journey of reading and sharing a text thanks to which boys and girls can develop or deepen important themes for their growth.
The project catalogue was designed with the specific aim of introducing the youngest to reading in an increasingly stimulating way, thus forming the readers of tomorrow.
To present the third issue of the guide Reading the world and the new edition of Readers are made, the platform ilLibraio.it will host an online panel, scheduled on the site’s Facebook page, Tuesday 24 September at 5pm. Protagonists of the meeting, included in the LibLive program and moderated by Glory Mary Ghioniwill be: Henry Galiano (teacher and writer), Mariagrazia Mazzitelli (Salani editorial director), Agnes Pini (author, journalist and director of Il Giorno, La Nazione, Il Resto del Carlino and Quotidiano Nazionale) and Stephen Mauri (President and CEO of GeMS).