About the National Reading Campaign
In 2008 a group of volunteers — writers, teachers,
librarians, parents, young people, and book and magazine
publishers — got together to talk about a nationwide way
to make Canada a country of readers. Over the course of
four years, the group grew and organized three national
summits, held in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver (with
distance participation from across the country). The
summits provided an opportunity to learn about the
national reading plans around the world, from Brazil to the
Netherlands, to discuss the best of the many innovative
programs already in place in Canada, and to use this
information as a base for developing our own National
Reading Plan. Word has spread and more volunteers have
come together in working groups of more than a hundred
participants. The National Reading Plan is the fruit of all
this information.
In 2012, The National Reading Campaign was
incorporated as a not-for profit organization.
(Retrieved from http://nationalreadingcampaign.ca. Access on August 25th, 2013)
The main goal of the text is:
