We need to stop and consider whether we want to live in a society where libraries are being downgraded. But libraries are so important culturally, when you lose them, you lose part of our culture. What often happens is things get brought down to local scales, and then the argument is invidious - for example we are closing this library down because we want good health care. Not SATs tests, or attainment levels, or league tables but the joy of losing yourself in the pages of a good book.”Ĭhris Riddell is an outspoken critic of library cuts and told us: “We nationally need to think again. In his acceptance speech on Monday, Riddell praised librarians as “pretty amazing people… they love turning children into readers by teaching them one of the most important life skills you can acquire, which is reading for pleasure. Libraries have been a central theme of Chris Riddell’s laureateship. He is the first three time winner of either the Kate Greenaway or the Carnegie medal. Chris Riddell has won the Kate Greenaway medal twice before, in 2001 for Pirate Diary and 2004 for his adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver.
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