CLUB KIRICO

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CLUB KIRICO

• Waking up the love of reading
• Juancho Pons
• CEGAL, Spain
• Antwerpen, November - 2004

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What is Club Kirico

• Club of Young Readers
• Together with Booksellers, Teachers, Librarians
  and Parents, promoting reading among children in
  a friendly atmosphere for them
• An easy and colourful web for children

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Promoters

• Ministerio de Cultura
• CEGAL (Confederación Española de Gremios y
  Asociaciones de Libreros Spanish Booksellers
  Association)
• Plan de Fomento de la Lectura (Spanish Plan for
  Promotion of Reading)

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Main Ideas of the Club

• Promote reading among children and teenagers
• Suggest Quality Books from Bookshops
• Contribute to form a Family Library
• 62 Bookshops all over the country, all of them
  members of CEGAL
• 800 users as parents and 550 users as children
• 480 books promoted from April 2nd 2003

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A group of boys and girls...

• ... who like reading, playing with books and
  writing
• ... who like to choose in the bookshop their
  books and to form their own library from a great
  variety of titles
• ... who communicate among them to give their
  opinions, play and have fun reading

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How to register

• The child can register on the web after answering
  a questionaire about how they choose books and
  where they buy them mainly
• The parents can register also in the web through
  an easy form but are mainly asked to register
  together with the kids as a family activity

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Activities

• A few examples
• Exhibition of the 10th Anniversary of Manolito
  Gafotas
• Reading aloud La cometa verde in a bookshop
• Would you like to tell a tale? Telling and
  listening tales in a bookshop
• Workshop about Island of the Treasure in a
  bookshop

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Kiricoteca (Kiricolibrary)

• Children can
• Make their own lists
• Choose in the list of the quarter (3 months)
• Search for books
• Vote for the most popular and read books
• See the historical list of books which have been
  in the Club Kirico (480 books so far)

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What parents can do

• They can see everything the children can see and
  also send comments, share experiences and also
  get in contact with booksellers
• Almost half of the site is only for the ones who
  registered
• It is absolutely free

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Why parents and children

• What do children do? What they see at home
• How many books do parents read when they have
  children? They are too tired to read...
• Is this the reason why children do not read?

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Some examples of the Material 1
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www.clubkirico.com
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We hope that these are the results
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Thanks for listening. Any question?

• Juancho Pons