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National Literacy Trust trustee Gail Rebuck wins at Adult Learners' awards
24 May 2010
National Literacy Trust trustee and Chief Executive of publishing firm Random House Gail Rebuck, has been given a special award at the Adult Learners’ Week 2010 National Awards Ceremony in recognition of her involvement in the Quick Reads scheme. With no more than 128 pages, the Quick Reads books are designed to encourage older, less confident readers to read more.
Gail was given the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literacy Learning in the UK.
At the ceremony, she paid tribute to the many adult learners present, and also thanked the Quick Reads authors and publishers and the many Quick Reads funders and partners who had helped run the initiative during the last five years.
Crime writer Peter James was given the Quick Reads Readers’ Favourite Award, voted for by readers and adult learners, for his book The Perfect Murder.
James said:
"In my view, a life without reading books is only half a life. This wonderful Quick Reads initiative is spreading the joys and riches of reading to hundreds of thousands of people. For every good book they go on to read, they have a gift for life that can never be taken away."
Previous winners of the Quick Reads Learners’ Favourite Award are Patience Thompson, for 101 Ways to get your Child to Read in 2009; Adele Parks for her book Happy Families, in 2008; Ricky Tomlinson for Reading My A***! in 2007 and Minette Walters who won the inaugural prize in 2006 for her book Chickenfeed.
Read the full story at The Bookseller.
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