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A reading initiative, The Advertiser Little Big Book Club, was launched yesterday in South Australia by its Premier Mike Rann to boost literacy.

All children in South Australia between 6-12 months can collect a free reading pack, starting from tomorrow. They expect to distribute about 18,000 reading packs. The reading pack will include “The Only Me, by first-time South Australian author Meredith Harvey and illustrator Amanda Graham, and the It’s Rhyme Time DVD and book”.

At the moment, South Australia also has the Premier’s Reading Challenge and the Big Book Club. These two reading initiatives are targeted at the older children and is ongoing. More than 90,000 children completed the Reading Challenge in 2006.

You can read the news article on The Advertiser.

Well, in Singapore, we have a similar initiatives, the “Born to Read, Read to Bond”, “Reading Cub” and “Reading Bear”. You can read more about these initiatives at the NLB corporate website.

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