From 22-27 October 2018, numerous elementary and high schools all over Italy celebrated for the fifth consecutive year Libriamoci (Let’s Read!) Week–an initiative dedicated to helping young people discover the pleasure and power of reading and its ability to involve everyone when it is done out loud.
Almost 300 people, many of them well known to the public, volunteered to “return to school” so as to read aloud some passages from their favorite texts to the students and discuss the content with them. Among these were 36 members of the Milan Pact for Reading, 44 publishers with their own authors, as well as dozens of actors, journalists, librarians and private citizens.
Libriamoci is a very creative initiative aimed at making the younger generations more aware of the importance of reading. “Reading should be a pleasure, not a constraint,” said one of the coordinators of the event. “It is very useful and good for the brain.”