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Join the fun & excitement at Pustaka-Bookaroo Children`s Literature Festival 2015

Posted on 05 March 2015

Kuching - Pustaka Negeri Sarawak
working together with Bookaroo Trust will organize the Pustaka- Bookaroo
Childrens Literature Festival 2015. The festival will be held this coming 28-29
March 2015 the week after mid term school holidays.

Bookaroo is
a charitable trust committed to bringing children and books together to spread
the joy of reading. Started in India
in 2008, the 7^th Bookaroo Childrens Literature Festival was held in
Delhi on 29-30
November 2014.

The Pustaka
- Bookaroo Childrens Literature Festival 2015 is expected to bring together
local and foreign authors, illustrators, story tellers, publishers, editors and
book lovers.

This festival aims to promote literature and reading among children and also to promote the development of knowledge,
theory and practice of reading, writing and discussing aspects of fiction and
non-fiction.

Not only
that, it also aims to enhance public awareness and consciousness of the necessity
of making children understand the importance of reading, literature from
various states and countries, authors and make reading a fun venture, not a
chore.

Meanwhile, The Bookaroo In The City program which is a visit program to several
schools in Kuching
City will be held on 23 –
27 March 2015. This would also help to encourage reading habit among students. Local
book industries are expected to get positive impact from this festival.

Members of
the public are invited to this festival. Admission is free. For further
information, please contact Japri Bujang Masli or Razak Rambili at 082-442000
ext 103 / 348 or email japribm@sarawak.gov.my
/ razakr@sarawak.gov.my.