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Silence in the library? How wordless books are helping to heal Lampedusa
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Jun

Silence in the library? How wordless books are helping to heal Lampedusa

By admin commentsLampedusa, refugee, refugees, haven, safety, sanctuary, library, libraries, wordless_books, children

“Ssssh! Fingers on lips!”

While the traditional idea of a library is a silent, dusty temple full of books, modern libraries are so much more than that. And the “Silent Books” project, which was launched in August 2012 at the 33rd IBBY Conference in London, has brought a very different kind of silence to the library on Lampedusa.

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