If you idled around in your home as a child it is likely that one of your parents or grandparents would hand you a book and force you to read for the next hour, then quiz you on what you learned. That's how literacy was kept alive before the era of omnipresent screens.
The change in child rearing practices has led to a reading gap in Belize, and with international book and copyright day being celebrated worldwide, the Belize Book Sector Network has prepared a full week of activities in hopes of raising awareness on the importance or reading. Today they opened the event with a book fair, and I dropped in to see what it was all about.
