Africa-Press – Angola. The need for parents and guardians to bet more on children’s literature, in order to introduce the habit of reading to children, was defended this Sunday by writer Isdore Otombo.
In a statement, regarding the 2nd of April, World Children’s Literature Day, he considered that encouraging the habit of reading frees the mind and broadens children’s horizons.
He reasoned that parents should acquire more children’s books to introduce them to the habit of reading and interpreting texts from an early age, in order to mature their children’s academic and literary life.
He also specified that children have the right to literary education, as they must have children’s books, stressing that books that go beyond the scope of children’s interpretation cannot be given away.
“There is a need to have children’s books in our environment that are at the height of children’s perception, understanding and interpretation, as the teaching and learning process is gradual”, he maintained.
Furthermore, he underscored the need for schools to give importance to the issue linked to the habit of reading, through the promotion of tournaments or reading and writing competitions with the aim of strengthening, creating and supporting students’ reading skills.
Children and adolescents spend most of their time at school, so educators are increasingly responsible for developing the habit of reading, he argued.
As a writer, Isdore Otomba has published a work for children and young people entitled “As Memórias da Menina Nangula”, having since 2018 eight books on the Angolan literary market, with emphasis on “I Married the Soba’s Daughter, Ndapewa”.
He is the author of the books “Cunene heroic”, “Meaning 2021st century for Angola”, “Love relationship in modernity” and “Word conceived without original sin”.
International Children’s Literature Day is celebrated worldwide on April 2, as a way to encourage and awaken in children a taste for reading.
The date aims to honor the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, author of stories such as The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid.
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