By Ian Eyres, Senior Lecturer, The Open University
Spring is here, and along with it comes yet another headteacher telling children what they should or shouldn’t read. The Alex Rider and Twilight series are probably the most famous on the latest list of publications deemed to be ‘so simplistic, brutal or banal they are barely worth reading’. This time, the list has been compiled by Andrew Halls, head of King’s College School in Wimbledon. In their place, he’d like to see children reading a range of ‘good’ books running from the works of P.G. Wodehouse to Lord of the flies. Continue reading “Read any good books lately?”