"Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child." - Anonymous

Welcome to the International Readathon blog! Here we will post feedback from participants in the Readathon, musings about books and reading, and basically just keep you all up to date on what is happening with the project.

First a little bit about the Readathon itself. It is arranged as an event in connection with the first ever Manchester Children's Book Festival, which is being organised by Carol Ann Duffy and Manchester Metropolitan University. We who volunteered to arrange the Readathon are MA Library and Information Management students at MMU, who became interested and engaged in this through a module called Literature and Its Readers, focusing on the effects and benefits of reading as an activity.

We are six students working on it at the moment, Catherine, Charlotte, Harriet, Vicki, Lucy and Ulrikke. During the Readathon we will be doing private readings to ourselves or friends, and we will also be running a story telling tent in a building at MMU which is being opened to parents and children on Saturday, with a host of activites for all.

But wherever you are in the world, please join in, do something fun, and let us know about it so we can talk about it to other people!