Tuesday, September 09, 2008

News at Eleven: Moreover, humour is one of the best ways

to make children into readers. Hence the source of support: Roald's widow Liccy Dahl believes that not only did her husband think there was "nothing better than a row of giggling children", but also that he longed for every child to be literate "and you can't start them on Shakespeare". Jokes are seductive. [Michael] Rosen's theory is that funny books liberate kids from their controlled lives--for the smaller ones by inverting what they know; for the older ones by puncturing teenage angst.

from Telegraph: Why making children laugh is a serious business

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