The traditional exchange between writers, teachers, librarians and reading mediators will be virtual for the first time. The Annual Meeting of Books and Teachers will premiere its fourteenth edition online this Thursday 25 from 10 to 18, with interviews with the writers Mother Wolf Y Graciela Montes as part of a program that also includes several free workshops and talks. In the field of reading, as also in others, Montes affirms that the school has “the great possibility of equalizing opportunities” in the essay “The great occasion”, which he wrote for El Plan Nacional de Lectura. “The first thing a teacher who wants to ‘teach to read’ can do is create the occasion, a propitious time and space, a state of mind and also a kind of reading communion,” says the author of Irulana and the Ogronte, which will present the reissue of Amadeo and other extraordinary people.
The meeting, organized by Penguin Random House, was consolidated as a great platform that allows authors of children’s and young people’s literature to share experiences with teachers, librarians and reading mediators. The exchange expanded, year after year, the debates and reflections on reading and literature for children and adolescents. How is the creative imaginary of those who write, what connections and links there are from book to book, how to narrate complex issues are some of the axes of this cycle whose last face-to-face editions summoned more than 500 people.
The first activity, at 10, will be a talk about literature and fantasy with Melina Pogorelsky, who will present The imaginary, and with Cristina Macjus who will talk about her new book Ankle long, where a giant falls in love with a fairy. At 11 it will be “Chemistry a la carte”, a workshop to experience senses and perceptions with Valeria Edelsztein. Since words are not enough, Edelsztein will unfold experiments to make the sensory experience complete. The journalist from Page 12 Karina Micheletto, specialist in children’s literature, will take a literary tour of Montes’ universe and review the contributions of the writer in the Argentine LIJ at 2:00 p.m.
The workshop of Magdalena Fleitas, “Sound plots, musical words”, at 3 o’clock, he will explore the musical word, scribbles of letters, couplet puppets, rhymes and games with the sound of poetry. “Musical language as a channel and support of the spoken word. Playful and expressive resources from the reading of various literary genres for teachers and professionals related to childhood. A path from practice to theory, from doing to analysis, to think of ourselves in music with open senses “, they anticipate.
Unmissable will be Canela’s interview with Graciela Montes, at 16; a conversation between two undisputed referents of children’s literature, focused on the fundamental place of reading, in which the trajectory of Montes, author of more than seventy fiction titles for children and notable literary theory texts such as The untamed frontier Y The farmyard of childhood, which in 2018 received the XIV Ibero-American SM Prize for Children’s and Young People’s Literature. The closing of the Meeting will arrive at 17, when María Amelia Macedo interviews Ema Wolf, the author of Wolf Adventures, Blackbeard and the donuts Y World’s End, among other titles, winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2005 with The scribe’s turn, novel that he wrote together with Graciela Montes.
“Literary texts are the best when it comes to ‘teaching to read’ (…) Literature is an unbeatable field for the training of the reader. By reading literature the reader finds himself in a much more extended territory than he usually travels to. daily “, Montes warns in” The great occasion “and adds that the literary universes work” like mysterious boxes, like riddles, and mobilize readings “. The great virtual mobilization is about to begin.
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