With the popularization of internet and other multimedia contents, many people in B&H stopped reading books. However, primary school pupils decided not to follow the steps of the adults and they are the most frequent visitors of the libraries.
“Children love when it is being read to them. They are just starting to gain knowledge and they enjoy when someone reads books to them or when you give them a book to read it on their own, especially kids in first and second grade. Older children are a little more passive,” said a teacher in one of the primary schools in Sarajevo, who attended the marking of the week of international Day of Children at the Children’s Reading Room in Sarajevo.
Particularly such events are reason why children in B&H turn to books more and more.
“These projects managed to bring children back to the libraries. Their number decreased after the war, and today we have more than 2,000 children members of this library, and that number increases day by day,” said Suzana Dedić, librarian of the Children’s Department of the Public Institution Biblioteke Sarajevo.
(Source: klix.ba)
