Liz manages Talk To Your Baby, the early language campaign
of the National Literacy Trust, encouraging parents and
carers to talk more to children from birth to three. Through
the TTYB website, information and support are offered to
professionals, and the advocacy role takes the subject as
widely as possible into the media.
Liz was a children's book publisher for twenty four years,
including 12 years as Publisher of Puffin Books. She was
on the UK and International Boards of Penguin Books. From
January 1998 - September 1999 she was Director of the National
Year of Reading, a Government campaign to encourage reading
for pleasure across the community. The following year she
studied for an MA in Child Studies at King's College, London.
In addition to her work on Talk To Your Baby, Liz is involved
in a number of different charities, all to do with children
or reading or both. These include being a Trustee of the
Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (in Great Missenden,
Buckinghamshire), and being a Trustee of the Poetry Archive,
an online resource with poets reading their own poetry.
She is also a school governor, and for the last few years
has been a judge for the Blue Peter Book Awards.
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