Intergenerational Reading

• Main Author: Tilka Jamnik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lodz University Press 2017-06-01
• Series: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Librorum
• Subjects: intergenerational reading; young people; adults; „cross-over” books
• Online Access: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/librorum/article/view/2058

It is somehow traditional a grandma reads to small children and a grandpa tells stories, but in real life these are rare opportunities nowadays. There are some projects encouraging elder people to read to children in kindergartens and in public libraries. There are more and more examples that young people read to elder people in retirement homes. All intergenerational reading possibilities could deepen the enjoyment of loud interpersonal reading. The paper presents one of the Slovene projects of the intergenerational reading that tends to bring together young people and grown-up, elder people reading the same young adults literature. There is a growing number of «intergenerational» novels, picture-books, poetry etc. Dedicated  to readers of all ages, and on the other hand aging population is increasing (as everywhere in the developed world). We need to know and understand each other, so maybe books, reading and exchanging thoughts and opinions can build one of the bridges among us.