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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Drop Everything and Read Day (12 April)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:45:43 +0200
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On 2024-04-14 10:38:24 +0000, Ross Clark said:

> Sorry, I guess it's too late for you to do this now. I am trying to 
> catch up....
> 
> It's the birthday of Beverly Cleary (1916-2021), a very popular (and 
> long-lived!)

104, but not far off 105! I can't think of anyone else who lived that 
long and is famous for something other than longevity.

>  American author of children's books.
> 
> She wrote a series of books about a little girl named Ramona Quimby, 
> and in one of them (published 1981), when Ramona is 8 years old, her 
> teacher says to the class:
> "...every day after lunch we are going to sit at our desks and read 
> silently to ourselves any book we choose in the library."
> And they didn't have to write a report on it!
> The teacher called this "Drop Everything and Read" (DEAR).
> 
> The "sustained silent reading" was not Cleary's invention, or even 
> based on her own schooldays (though the Wiki article says that she did 
> have problems with reading in the early stages). It was her children 
> who went to schools where it was an established practice.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Cleary


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.