Six writers have brought the literary world closer to the students of the César Manrique Cabrera and Guenia schools

Six writers have brought the literary world closer to the students of the César Manrique Cabrera and Guenia schools

The craft of writing has come to the students of the César Manrique Cabrera school, personified in the figure of six Canary Island writers of children's literature. A ...

May 16 2006 (09:30 WEST)
Six writers have brought the literary world closer to the students of the César Manrique Cabrera and Guenia schools
Six writers have brought the literary world closer to the students of the César Manrique Cabrera and Guenia schools

The craft of writing has come to the students of the César Manrique Cabrera school, personified in the figure of six Canary Island writers of children's literature. Through the story of the creative process, the way of writing and the literary concerns of each author, an attempt has been made to bring books closer to the children.

In this initiative, framed within the "Lee Canarias" program, 300 students from the César Manrique Cabrera school, in Tahiche, and the Guenia school, in Guatiza have participated. "It is very important that children start handling books physically, because this way they get closer to them and end up reading them," commented Lucía Rosa González, one of the authors of the children's stories who has moved to the school.

The students have had to read the assigned author's book beforehand in order to be able to ask them the appropriate questions. In this way, in first grade they have read "Fompi" by Cecilia Domínguez, those in second grade "La niña de la Pimienta Seca" by Lucía Rosa González, the third grade course read "Los jueguetes de Miguelín" by Ángel Camacho Cabrera, "Toba" by Jaime Quesada has been the book designed for the fourth grade students, the fifth grade "In the Botanical Garden" by Daniela Martín and "Description of an oceanic island and its inhabitants" by Felix Hormiga from Lanzarote, the book assigned to sixth grade.

"The little ones are very excited to meet the author of a book they have read because they realize that he/she is a normal person," said Lucía Rosa González, author of "La niña de la Pimienta Seca". For their part, the children have greatly enjoyed the experience and have all shown that they have read the stories. The questions that the writers have had to answer the most throughout the day have been those related to the birth of the concern for writing, how long it takes to create a work and how the story arises in the writer's mind.

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