You need to read to get (and keep) a cool job

Reading helps you keep safe

Reading improves your vocabulary

Reading lets you experience amazing new worlds and adventures

Weird and Wacky facts about Reading

Writing has been around since roughly 3500bc what written on and with

The oldest book in the world is kept in the Bulgarian National Museum of History.
It’s over 2500 years old and was discovered by road workers when they were digging a road.  The book has only got 6 pages and they’re made of gold!
It’s written in Etruscan words (which is a language that died out a long time ago) and has pictures of a horseman, a mermaid, a lyre (a musical instrument) and warriors. 

20% of the world population was illiterate in 1998 by the United Nations definition – which is they can’t read and write a simple sentence in any language

Movable printing presses which create books and pamphlets weren’t invented until the 15th century – 600 years ago

As late as 1840 in England just about half the population used to sign their name using an X (because they couldn’t write or read their own name) they would be people like your Grandad’s Grandad.

The first ‘discovered’ libraries were a particular type of library called archives. Archaeological findings from the ancient city-states of Sumer when they were discovered were full of clay tablets mostly with records of sales and things that had been sold by the traders in the nearby towns

The earliest example in England of a library for people who weren’t members of a church or college was the Francis Trigge Chained Library in Grantham, Lincolnshire,  that started in 1598. The library still exists today !!!

Duffy Books in New Zealand has given over 5,000,000 books away to New Zealand kids !

The longest name for a book is a an Italian book by Davide Ciliberti which has over 290 words as it’s title...the name of the book is :  "Per favore dite a mia madre che faccio il pubblicitario lei pensa che sono un pierre e che quindi regalo manciate di free entry e consumazioni gratis a chi mi pare, rido coi vips, i calciatori le veline e le giornaliste, leggo Novella e mi fotografano i paparazzi, entro neI privé saltando la coda, bevo senza pagare, sono ghiotto di tartine e gin tonic, ho la casa piena di oggetti di design, conosco Paris Hilton, Tom Ford ed Emilio"

One of Constable Bryan favourite books, from when he was a kid, was a book called “Under the mountain” by, Kiwi author and artist, Maurice Gee.