Reading. His reading policy. The Children’s Laureate wants to get “more children reading as widely as possible”. The Gove seems keener on getting fewer reading as narrowly as possible. The Children’s Laureate wants tots reading almost anything, including comics, graphic novels, vampire fiction. “Low” culture. Nod’s not keen. He favours a fierce dose of the received canon, popular in the 1950s – Dead White Blokes, “High” culture.
He would prefer his daughter to read George Eliot’s Middlemarch rather than Stephanie Myer’s Twilight. Yikes! How old is she? He would probably prefer my Dave Mania to read Proust rather than wrestle with Harry Redknapp’s match day ruminations. I’d prefer Dave to read – anything. You’ve got to start somewhere.
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