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The idea for a city-wide read started in Campion
Catholic High School in 2004, taking its lead from interest
generated in other citywide reads such as the one running annually
in Bristol. We started with Holes by Louis Sachar and established
links with the city's education department, Liverpool libraries,
local businesses, sponsors, funders, and community groups. From
2005-6 the city read Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce. This read
further established links in the community, and saw a year of
reading groups, public readings and school and community events. Our
biggest project to date was 2007's Small Island Read where Liverpool
joined with Bristol, Hull, Glasgow, and South West and North West
libraries, giving away 50,000 copies of Small Island by Andrea Levy.
This project ran in connection with the Bicentennial of the
Abolition of Slavery.
For 2008, Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture as well as the National Year of Reading, Liverpool will be reading the novels Keeper and Tamar by Mal Peet. See the Get involved / Events
near you pages for ideas on how you can take part.
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