Product reviews for Reading for Pleasure

Kenny Pieper - a -˜bedraggled, wilting, full-time teacher of English' - provides us with smart, informed and easily achievable solutions to promote a genuine culture of reading for pleasure in our classrooms and schools. This short book enlightens us to the author's own journey through reading, from Roy of the Rovers to Bukowski and articulately explains why reading can, -˜help to create a generation of kids who will be able to tell when they're being shafted.' Kenny eloquently denounces approaches commonly used in schools such as the horror of the book review, Accelerated Reader projects, reading periods and the insistence on staff dressing up as characters from literature on World Book Day! Instead, Mr P encourages teachers to become involved with their students' reading (even the -˜sweetcorn kids') by being, -˜by their sides when they encounter confusion or want to share their excitement or laughter at the funny bits. They want us to do that. Too often we don't.'



A blistering, honest, thought-provoking and funny read. Only Kenny could write about something so important yet still manage to reminisce about the likes of Kenny Dalglish, Bill Hicks and Debbie Harry along the way and even equate the Greek philosophers to the Godfather actors! I can't recommend this book highly enough.