State of Independents

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Don’t let books be marginalised – save Bookstart

I could write a great deal here about the need to encourage in children the habit of reading for pleasure and the need to help parents to start reading with their children.  There is masses to say about the folly of government plans to remove funding from the brilliant Bookstart scheme which has since 1992 [...]

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Welcome to State of Independents. I'm Vanessa Robertson. I live in Edinburgh and my husband and I own a bookshop and tiny publishing house. This is where I write about the book trade as I see it and I'm not always as diplomatic as I should be... We write about what's going on in our businesses over at The Fidra Blog

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