The brilliant Danny Katz writes about the difficulties of getting kids to read in this exclusive Kids Month piece You can’t force a non-reading kid to read. You can’t occy-strap a book to their face and hold their eyelids open with alligator clips – they don’t like it, they say it hurts, kids today are so soft. If a non-reading kid ever attempts to read a book, they see it as work, ... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Danny Katz author of A Book About Scary and more… Ten Terrifying Questions ——————– 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? Here’s the awful truth: I’m a Canadian. I was born in Canada, I grew up in Canada, I even spoke Canadian which ... Read more