ISBN: 0872072398

Description: x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

• Reading in developing countries : problems and issues / Vincent Greaney
• Lifting literacy levels in developing countries : some implications from an IEA study / Warwick B. Elley
• Research foundations to support wide reading / Richard C. Anderson
• Textbooks in developing countries / João Oliveira
• Developing local publishing capacity for children's literature / Tony Read
• Promoting independent reading : Venezuelan and Colombian experience / Nelson Rodríguez-Trujillo
• Promoting children's book publishing in Anglophone Africa / Scott Walter
• Using book floods to raise literacy levels in developing countries / Warwick B. Elley
• Donated book programs : an interim measure / Rosamaria Durand and Suzanne M. Deehy
• Libraries and literacy in developing countries / Rebecca Knuth, Barbara Perry, and Brigitte Duces.

LCCN: 96022713

Control Number: 367628

Subjects:

• 2.
• Books and reading -- Developing countries.
• Literacy -- Developing countries.
• Literacy programs -- Developing countries.
• Publishers and publishing -- Developing countries.

Other Authors:

• Greaney, Vincent.
• International Reading Association.