Published articles

Anne has had several articles published.

‘You’ve changed my life’: teenagers, reading and libraries
An article for IBBYLink on libraries' role in inspiring reading among teenagers, particularly teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Supporting children and young people with special educational needs
This piece for CILIP Library and Information Update explores learning and reading difficulties and ways that libraries can support children and young people who have them.

Making reading fun for pre-school children
An article discussing methods parents and carers can use to inspire a love of books and reading in their young children. This is a revised version of a piece commissioned by the Pre-school Learning Alliance and first published in Under Five Contact.

Laying the foundations for reading
An article exploring ways that early years practitioners can support children’s reading development in pre-schools and nurseries. This is an extended and updated version of an article commissioned by the Pre-school Learning Alliance and first published in Under Five Contact.

Messages from Matilda
This article explores children’s early reading development and the role of libraries in supporting it. It first appeared in a slightly different version in Youth Library Review.

Anne also publishes a blog on issues relating to children, families and young people.