Due to an exciting opportunity to host a major scholar, we are deferring the annual World Book Day celebrations slightly next year.  So pencil Wednesday 25 March into your diaries, and look forward to a most interesting public lecture by Prof. Maryanne Wolf, and consider joining us afterward for a buffet dinner at the Staff Club.

Prof. Wolf is a scholar, a teacher, and an advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the  newly created Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.  Previously she was the  John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and  Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University.  She is the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (2007, HarperCollins), Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain (Edited; York, 2001),  Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (2016, Oxford University Press), and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (August, 2018, HarperCollins). (More details at maryanne.com.)

Her visit is made possible by the Book Council of NZ and we are thrilled to be able to hear about Prof. Wolf’s work and deep insights about reading.