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February 2016 Newsletter (view source)
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We were rather depressed to read this: children's books currently get just 3% of all book review space, despite accounting for over 30% of the market. It's [http://middlegradestrikesback.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/coverkidsbooks-facts.html true]. Thank heavens for the internet, where there is a lively community writing and talking about books for young people, don't you think?
But here's a cool thing. Reading can improve your mental health. [[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/stephen-fry-ian-mckellen-and-melvyn-bragg-share-stories-of-how-literature-can-help-with-mental-a6830516.html Stephen Fry, Sir Ian McKellen and Melvyn Bragg]] have each given deeply personal interviews to academics as part of a free online course which considers how poems, plays and novels can help us to understand and cope with deep emotional distress. The course is called ''Literature and mental health: Reading for wellbeing'' and we think it sounds like a truly positive initiative.
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