1. Just how many reasons do you want for taking reading seriously? Literacy is obviously a basic life skill, but reading more widely - and reading more imaginative works - is also about emotional literacy, helping young people to recognise and respond to their own and other people's emotions.
It's a quality of life issue too: offering experiences that are fun, powerful and exhilarating. Then, of course, there's lifelong learning: read a Thomas Hardy novel and you learn about the human heart but also about sheep shearing, fruit picking and the rest.
2. You are an educator and should take responsibility for helping young people to widen their horizons and access sources of knowledge, but you needn't be an expert on books. There are people we call librarians who are very good at this.
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