00:02The National Year of Reading is encouraging everyone to make reading part of daily life.
00:07Across the North East, people have been sharing their favourite childhood and school day books,
00:12from Tales by Shakespeare to Adventures in Middle-earth.
00:16Annual events like Shakespeare Week and Tolkien Reading Day, which have happened recently,
00:21highlight the joy of stories and how they can connect generations.
00:25Showing children that, you know, this is a book, it's been published, there's been an illustrator and an author involved,
00:34encouraging them that that could be them one day, so that it gives this book another dimension.
00:40It's not just about these other books that have already been written and you just need to sit and read
00:45them.
00:46It's also about this could be you one day or this could inspire you to do something else.
00:51I mean, childhood, well, school, yeah, mainly, I mean, once that stood out, it's obviously everyone's read it,
00:55like Cannon Farm, that's a great classic, and Of Mice and Men.
01:00So, yeah, those were very enjoyable back in the day.
01:03Favourite series of kids? The Sex and the Seep series, they were Angie Sage.
01:07And the only reason I ever read those is because they looked like old, like, old-fashioned books,
01:11and then the story was really good, so I enjoyed them.
01:13I read lots of, like, people to see, like, all the roles are all those kind of kids.
01:17I like The Colossal Stone. I've read all of them, watched all the books.
01:22I've been to London. I'm a big Harry Potter fan, all the powers of magic,
01:28and the way he was brought up from a young kid, and now he's made something for himself.
01:33Reading for pleasure is a higher indicator of academic success than parental income or status.
01:38And that's important, isn't it? Because if we're actually serious about wanting to give kids more opportunity,
01:49new chances, then get them reading for pleasure.
01:52Not killing the joy of it by focusing on spelling and grammar.
01:59I read a lot of fantasy books just as a way to kind of, I don't know, escape into another
02:04world,
02:04you know, enjoy myself, you know, just forget about work.
02:07But other than that, a lot of, like, I guess, books I can learn from.
02:11So I like some psychology books, you know, a little bit of science books.
02:16I liked all of the Eno Blighton's books, but I found them, as being somebody that's got neurodiverse,
02:25I just found them easier to read and digest.
02:27I actually read a lot more non-fiction now. I've read, I'm reading one fiction book at the moment,
02:34which is the Dungeon Crawler Cars series, but I actually read, yeah, mostly non-fiction, like fishy books.
02:41These celebrations are a reminder of the power of stories to inspire, entertain and connect us,
02:47whether revisiting Shakespeare, Tolkien or cherished childhood favourites.
02:51The National Year of Reading invites everyone to pick up a book and rediscover the joy it can bring no
02:58matter your age.
02:59Let's go for it maybe three times.
02:59How do we resist any days?
02:59Very close, let's take a few verses,
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