Scientific readings for children

Abstract

Attention to instilling the habit of reading from early childhood is one of the first concerns that must be taken care of, and children’s books are not limited to story books. Rather, there are objective books alongside them that address scientific topics that children must be directed to in order to develop the ability to research and innovate. Hence comes the importance of This book, which we are presenting in this issue, is a field study to identify the scientific readings of children from the age of 6 to 15 years during the period of the Reading for All Festival, which begins from June until October, in the year 2003 in eight libraries: the Great Sea Library, the Greater Sea Library, Khaled bin Al-Walid, the 6th of October Children’s Library, the Children’s Model Library at the Children’s Literature Research Documentation Center, Talaat Harb Library, the Greater Cairo Library, the Mubarak Public Library, and finally the Maadi Public Library. It has been noted that there is a diversity of entities affiliated with these libraries, including the Integrated Care Association and the Authority. General Office of the National Library and Archives and the Ministry of Culture.

The author of this book is Dr. Suhair Ahmed Mahfouz, who is considered the most prominent specialist in Egypt and the Arab world in children’s literature and libraries, and who has enriched the Arab library with many studies in this field.