Frank Cottrell Boyce: excessive analysis of books puts kids off reading

Writer to use David Fickling lecture to argue that some teaching methods promoting literacy are polluting the reading experience

The pleasure children get from reading is being put at risk by the teaching methods being used to encourage literacy, the writer Frank Cottrell Boyce will warn on Friday.

The writer, who won the 2004 Carnegie medal for his first childrens book, Millions, is giving the annual David Fickling lecture in Oxford, in which he will passionately defend reading for the sake of reading.

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