Catalogue
While it is certainly true that we can learn to read – to decipher a written code – the joy of reading is something that cannot be taught. It is such a special activity that each one of us has to find their own way of loving books.
From the very start, children have to be aware that each time they open a book they enter a new world. It is a world which, to begin with, they will discover with the assistance of an adult by way of a shared reading experience. This initial support will help the youngster to express fears and pleasures and to feel secure when they return to the same characters and the familiar words of a story which demands to be read over and again. The atmosphere which goes with this shared act of reading will help to shape them as readers.
But in addition to the place and time of the reading, it is also necessary to offer children material which invites them to open themselves up to the world, to acquire their first taste for literature and to build on what they learn. The Combel catalogue started out with that intention, an aim that is always present in the choice of the titles.
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