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Almost 4,500 children from Girona bought a book with the “It’s 6 years old” campaign. choose a book’

In the Girona regions 4,491 children aged 6 years have acquired a book thanks to the campaign of the Catalan Booksellers Guild and the Generalitat. “It’s been 6 years.” “Choose a book.” This represents 56.8% of the total number of boys and girls who received the voucher at home. This is a campaign in which the Generalitat gives each child a voucher worth thirteen euros so that they can exchange it for a book in one of the participating bookstores. This means that 43% of 6-year-old boys and girls in the Girona counties have not used this voucher. By district, He Plan de l’Estany is the one in which more children took part with almost 71%, while the lowest was thatOld Empordawhere 51.2% of six-year-olds used it.

In Catalonia as a whole, 42,956 6-year-old children took part in 2023, a number that exceeds the number of the previous year by almost 3,500 and represents almost 60% of registered children. This is the highest figure since the campaign began in 2016 and exceeds the proportion of children who took part in the 2022 edition, which was 53.23%. It should be noted that in 2016, 38.3% of the children surveyed used it.

In total, 7,091 titles were sold from 424 publishers, compared to 5,923 titles sold from 400 publishers in the 2022 edition. It should be noted that the language most chosen by children is Catalan, with them accounting for 73% of sales of books. The figure is also located above the average percentage of annual sales of children’s and young adult books in Catalan, which is around 66%.

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The number of bookstores participating in the campaign also increased in 2023, from 462 in 2022 to 504 this year. When it comes to the type of bookstore with the highest rate of card redemptions, independent bookstores have more sales this year (59.80%) than chains (40.20%).

The campaign is an initiative of Booksellers Guild To promote reading among 6-year-old children, exactly the age at which they begin to become readers. This is a voucher that arrives at every boy and girl’s home and can be exchanged for books of children’s literature.