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WAN-IFRA to offer a new serial story to celebrate International Literacy Day We will launch a new serial story, José - Fly Reporter, on International Literacy Day (8  September) that newspapers anywhere can use for free.José - Fly Reporter uses the adventures of a community of adorable (really!) insects to gently teach some basics about newspaper journalism, including José's ladybug colleague Jake at right.  The eight-part story, with activities, will be available in English and Spanish. Newspapers will be authorized to translate the story into any other language. In addition, this year, story users can join a user group on our World Young Reader Network. Newspapers can begin the story any time before the end end of the year.You can download the story summary HERE. If you would like the story in advance of the launch date, please contact Fredy Valle at yrprojects@wan.asso.fr  As an extra bonus, the author, Cathy Sewell, will give a workshop on how to promote serial stories at the 8th World Young Reader Conference set for 27-30 September in Prague. As it has done for all WAN-IFRA's serial stories, the Paris-based "Sardine Features" has again donated photos and a related story for this year's effort. This year's photos show images from the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly, and the package of stories tells several tales about real insects. Founded in 1998, Sardine Features specializes in English-language general interest, travel, wildlife, food and lifestyle articles for readers of all ages accompanied by fully captioned photographs. Contact: Patricia Valicenti at _331 43 36 52 64 or via email HERE. Click HERE to get more information about the donated materials.    In 2008, newspapers in 26 countries representing a circulation of more than 5 million have run the serial story that WAN offered newspapers as an engaging 8-part undersea adventure for children. Thanks to the help of several partners "Frannie Learns a Lesson" provided a way to and teaching about such common school challenges as new teachers, tests and bullies.  Donors were Glenn McCoy (art), Jenni Duke and Cathy Sewell (text) The Paris-based Sardine Features donated a package of stories and photos about real coral reefs. THINKING AHEAD TO 2010: We're already looking for an idea for a story for next year. If you have an idea, do write us. UNESCO awards Literacy Prize to women's rural newspaper  A newspaper produced by women in rural India is among the winners of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes this year, which will be awarded on International Literacy Day in Paris on 8 September Details of this and other prizes HERE UNESCO made "The Power of Literacy" this year's theme for International Literacy Day, and actions will include a lecture at UNSECO headquarters by Dr. Lalage Bown, who spent more than 30 years working in adult Education at universities in Zambia and Nigeria. For more information about WAN's other young readership efforts, please click HERE |
 International Literacy Day International Literacy Day was established in 1965 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and is celebrated around the world each year on September 8. But there is still a huge problem. According to Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, illiteracy represents a "genuine threat for human development" with one in five adults over age 15 unable to read not only a newspaper but even a street sign or the names on a voting ballot. Click HERE for details about the 2009 observance, which will focus on "The Power of Literacy"  Celebrate Literacy Day with a special cartoon Cartoonists worldwide have donated panels and strips that newspapers can use for free to celebrate the importance of reading on International Literacy Day (8 September). Click HERE to see and download them.  Animated film stars can help you support literacy The Newspaper Association of America has launched the latest of its literacy public service advertisements with a link to a current movie. Any newspaper can use the ads for free after registering. The new advertisement that newspapers anywhere can publish features the little girl Coraline, who visits a parallel universe. Under the headline, "Discover a new world," the text reads: "What if you could travel from one corner of the globe to another, without leaving your chair ..." Other advertisements, which are in English, feature such popular characters as Horton the elephant, Wall-E, Shrek, and the stars of "Cars" and Ratatouille".
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