Sharjah Reading for Child 2025 reviews critical thinking, child literature and illustrated narratives
Sharjah, April 27 / WAM / A number of writers and researchers in child literature stressed that reading and child literature constitutes basic tools to build the child’s personality and enhance his cultural identity, pointing to the importance of instilling Arab and human values at an early age and to the role of literature in dealing with social issues in a way that suits children’s awareness and encourages them to think critical and openness to diversity.
They stressed the importance of representing various backgrounds and cultures in children’s books, to enhance the feeling of affiliation and mutual respect, stressing that literature contributes to building more cohesive societies, and is considered an effective way to overcome cultural differences and enhance common values such as friendship and tolerance.
This came during a dialogue symposium, entitled “Stories United” organized by the Sharjah Book Authority within the cultural program of the Sharjah Reading Festival for the child currently held at the Sharjah Expo Center, and will continue until 4 May, during which the Emirati writer Badria Al Shamsi, Ronda Romanian author and American journalist of Syrian origin, and Moroccan writer Hassan Benmouna, researcher and Tunisian academic Dr. Nizar Al -Qamari.
Specialists in the affairs of the literature and culture of the child confirmed that today’s child is different from yesterday’s child, in many interests, especially the subject of reading, what is appropriate for yesterday’s children, no longer suits a child today for the great and accelerated change that the world is witnessing in various fields after the Internet revolution, social networks and artificial intelligence, during the symposium “Choosing the appropriate book for your little child” during which both the writer Kulin Nilsen from Canada, Samina, spoke from India, Dr. Ahlam Niwar from Morocco, and writer Nadia Al -Najjar from the United Arab Emirates.
Yana Maurichima presented the literary agent and specialized in comic novels and visual narrative narration, a different vision of the traditional concept of reading in an intellectual symposium entitled “Photo novels to encourage reading”, noting the concept of comic novels and their importance in building the habit of reading in children and emerging and the fundamental difference between traditional books and modern video accounts.
Maurice, during the symposium, highlighted the important role played by the novels in building the reading habit and developing its skills in readers, especially those who are frequented or not enthusiastically for traditional reading, because it attracts attention by mixing images and texts, which makes the reading experience more interesting and easily in understanding and stimulating the novels of the brain to process information in multiple ways and contributes to building the reader’s ability to follow up and increase Take it to read for longer periods, giving them the reading muscles an effective and natural exercise.
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