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\u201cI never stopped reading<\/strong>, reading, reading; every book I read represented a facet of the infinite, which I chased and chased, and always failed to catch.\u201d Words by Pietro Citati<\/strong> that aptly describe his extraordinary literary passion and outstanding critical sharpness, both featured in La ragazza dagli occhi d\u2019oro <\/em>(The girl with the golden eyes<\/em>), published by Adelphi, whose title pays homage to Honor\u00e9 de Balzac. It’s a book about books, a journey through words and memories, an endless path towards the infinite he embarked on with his friend Italo Calvino. Words, too, that are more essential than ever in making us realise the importance of kindling a passion for reading in children, and from the very start of their education.<\/p>\n

Reading as the pleasure of discovery and adventure, a way to experience many other lives besides ours, a means to imagine uncharted worlds, to learn, to understand, to create \u2013 to build a genuine Grammar of fantasy<\/em>, as suggested Gianni Rodari<\/strong>, a master of children’s literature, blending \u201ctextual pleasure\u201d with a passion for learning, journeying both within and beyond history.<\/p>\n

These are fertile times for good books aimed at children and young adults, with promising publishing opportunities, and new authors discovered and launched side by side with the great \u201cclassics\u201d. This can be seen on social media, especially those most popular with the younger generations, as the growing number of \u201cBookTokers\u201d on TikTok demonstrates, but also in the efforts undertaken by the most prestigious literary publications \u2013 La Lettura<\/em><\/strong>, the Sunday cultural supplement by Corriere della Sera<\/em>, has recently launched a new edition dubbed La Letturina<\/em>, devoted \u201cto children and young adults, but also to parents, teachers, educators and all those in touch with their inner child\u201d, full of real-life stories, contributions by great authors, reading tips and suggestions for films and games inspired by books. And there’s also Robinson<\/em>, the cultural supplement by la Repubblica<\/em>, quick to jump on the trend with its issue entitled \u201cMerry Christmas kids\u201d, featuring stories by the star authors of fantasy and young adult narrative genres. It’s a whole world to be unravelled, understood, nourished.<\/p>\n

Further evidence of this increased interest in young readers is also noticeable in the higher number and quality of the books nominated for the second edition of the Campiello Junior literary prize<\/strong>, promoted by the Campiello Foundation and by the Pirelli Foundation, which comprises two categories: children aged seven to ten and young adults aged eleven to fourteen years.<\/p>\n

Only last week, in fact, the technical panel \u2013 chaired by Roberto Piumini<\/strong>, a prominent children’s book author, and including Chiara Lagani<\/strong>, Martino Negri<\/strong>, Michela Possamai<\/strong> and David Tolin<\/strong> \u2013 selected the three finalists in each category, and has now entrusted them to the popular jury (240 young readers), which will choose the winner next May (all information can be found at www.premiocampiello.org<\/a> and www.fondazionepirelli.org<\/a>). A difficult choice, assert the technical jurors, given the authors’ high level. And an auspicious sign that authors will continue to focus on an audience that’s gradually becoming more discerning, attentive and sophisticated \u2013 as reading enhances children’s intellectual development.<\/p>\n

In fact, Roberto Piumini, talking about the choice to split the Award into two age groups, comments that, \u201cChildren and young adults experience reading differently; the former feel more of an emotional and playful connection, the latter a more complex, and at times even emotionally intense, one.\u201d In other words, this is literature in tune with individual and generational needs. Another novelty introduced this year is the inclusion of a volume of poetry in each category: \u201cThe aim is twofold: on the one hand, this is a way to formally introduce children to poetry as, though read and studied especially in primary school, remains nonetheless scarce in bookshops. On the other hand, this might also inspire and encourage the publishing industry.\u201d Indeed, the Campiello Junior literary prize could \u201ccontinue to widen its perspective\u201d and evolve into a \u201cPrize for creative writing, an integral part of the network \u2013 or fabric \u2013 encompassing writing, publishing, reading and a social practice that, after careful consideration, could prove to be a cure for our times, marked by a great clatter but too few words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the crux of the matter: our times are indeed marked by a great clatter and too few words, by an overabundance of demagoguery and fumbling chattering loaded with resentment (and, worryingly, social media are the main vehicle for this). Hence, we need to insist on the quality of the written \u2013 and read \u2013 word, which could turn into a good antidote to the corruption of language, speech and relationships, starting from the first stages of education.<\/p>\n

In fact, reading provides an extraordinary impetus to the creation of a future-oriented story and also fosters a fundamental human state \u2013 happiness. We should be reading not as a chore but, above all, as an exercise for the imagination, as the joyful pursuit of a vivid relationship with the world of ideas and emotions, as a continuous act of discovery, aware that the children we now entice into the world of literature are not just the readers of today, but also the citizens of tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa cultura \u00e8 come il pane<\/strong>\u201d (Culture is like bread), read the cover of the Rivista Pirelli <\/em><\/strong>magazine in January 1951, referring to an article by Silvestro Severgnini<\/strong> expounding on how cultural activities (conferences, concerts, the sponsorship of exhibitions and art exhibits, corporate libraries) played a key role in the process of economic, social and civic reconstruction and the recovery of Italy, which \u2013 once the dreadful debris of fascism, racial laws and war had been cleared out \u2013 picked up momentum and set the scene for the economic boom.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the basic notion of a link between industry and culture was also a familiar one in enterprises such as Olivetti, Eni, and Iri’s Finmeccanica, the latter of which published an excellent magazine befittingly titled Civilt\u00e0 delle macchine<\/strong> <\/em>(Civilised machinery), <\/em>to suggest a bustling, transformative industrial and social civilisation. A concept that’s still very relevant today, when talking about \u201cindustrial humanism\u201d \u2013 now evolving into \u201cdigital humanism\u201d \u2013 and its need for a vigorous and widespread \u201cpolytechnic culture\u201d able to blend humanities and scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n

We live in an era marked by the \u201cknowledge economy<\/strong>\u201d, where not only corporate competitiveness \u2013 and thus employment, well-being and sustainable development \u2013 but also the foundations of civil coexistence, are at play. As such, we really do need to insist on the development of a widespread culture in order to attain awareness, critical skills, and imagination, the qualities required to conceive and paint a better future \u2013 in this perspective, children’s books come to represent the cornerstones of civilisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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