
The spring 2023 reading committees
We invite you to our next reading committees. The partner media libraries welcome us for critical presentations of new picture books for young and old.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Since 1988, our team of professional readers has been travelling mainly in Le Nord and Le Pas-de-Calais, two French departments in the Hauts-de-France region, and reading aloud to toddlers and their parents, children, teenagers and adults.
A rich experience with many encounters with people and books.
Unique, outstanding and lively encounters.
We invite you to our next reading committees. The partner media libraries welcome us for critical presentations of new picture books for young and old.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Best wishes !
That’s all Read with me
At the beginning of February
Who comes to sound the oboe
(Better late than never) !
In 23 and after
Wish with enthusiasm
A shared future
A civic future.
Ah yes, in French, it rhymes!
Isabelle Stella, director of Read with me, was interviewed for writing this article which presents the resource site www.lirealapmi.fr (to which Read with me contributed) in the November issue of Territoires d’éveil, online publication of Childhood and Music Association.
Report of Nord Info at the PMI (Maternal and Child Protection) of Denain, around the readings shared with the families by Nadia Thilliez, salaried reader of Read with me on the Valenciennes region.
An article to (re)discover PMI readings.
Every year
9 800
Persons concerned
17
Professionals
more than 200
Organized reading projects
more than 100
Municipalities involved
« Reading, what for?
Simply to dream, to think, to understand,
to get out of oneself, from one’s home, to go very far, or very close.
It helps to find one’s way, other ways,
also to invent and to remember.
It helps to breathe, to be less afraid.
It also helps to laugh, and to cry.
It helps to live. »
Isabelle Stella
(former Sagnet)
Director of Read With Me
Our readings are aimed primarily at people who are “vulnerable” or “far” from books and writing, in multiple places, with the commitment of multiple partners. We favour individual or small group readings.
We know it’s important:
Professional reader, quite a story!
Words from salaried readers
« When we are told “You only read!…”, well yes! But not only…
First of all, we try and convince the most distant, the most reluctant, those who have never seen a particular interest in reading.
This job aims above all to arouse the desire to go there, to read, to open and sometimes even just to touch a book. »
« To be a reader is to practice a profession that has proven itself by all the beneficial effects on all people, from toddlers to adults.
It is to enhance their skills.
It is to pass on stories and share a common culture.
It means creating and carrying out innovative and varied projects. »