Easy to Read criteria – for all?

Easy to Read books are nowadays read by a broad and varied audience, from people with intellectual disabilities to unused readers, and those who are learning a new language. Should we provide different criteria and various Easy Languages for the diverse reader groups?

Multicultural Easy to Read books

In this globalised world, we increasingly meet people from different cultural backgrounds. In school, pupils with other cultural backgrounds often find that the schoolbooks and materials they are studying do not reflect their own reality. What kind of literature do they need so that they can recognise themselves?

Reading and learning

For a person with dyslexia school might be a challenge, when reading is difficult and slow. Letters change places and jump on the line. Is reading the only way to learn, or are there other possibilities?

Haiku poems: Eight dahlias

Haiku in three languages: garden, tree, home and season, cat and smile.
Marianne Ståhlberg’s new book Åtta dahlior – Eight dahlias – Kahdeksan daaliaa talks about life and nature in Swedish, English and Finnish.