Ending Book Hunger: Expanding Children's Access to Books

Every child has the right to read, yet one billion children lack access to books in their native languages, and 40 percent of children in America cannot afford to buy books. This is an educational crisis: the number of books at home is the best predictor of a child's success in school. In Ending Book Hunger, Lea Shaver explores nonprofit strategies to reshape children's publishing through more diverse books, lower costs, fewer language barriers, and mobile reading via digital libraries. She examines how copyright law and licensing can help bring books to the next billion potential readers and invites teachers, librarians, authors, illustrators, booksellers, publishers, and other book lovers to join the campaign against childhood book hunger. Mai mult