Princess Laurentien Attends National Reading Breakfast Days

Today, Wednesday January 22, Princess Laurentien was present at the launch of the 17th edition of the National Reading Breakfast Days at the Zoetermeer Forum Library, in the province of South Holland.
At the presence of toddlers and pre-schoolers, the Princess read “Grumpy Duck”. The book, written and illustrated by Petr Horáček and Joyce Dunbar, was elected Picture Book of the Year 2020 by a jury of Dutch children’s librarians.
The National Reading Days is an initiative of the Reading Foundation and organized by the Foundation for Collective Promotion of the Dutch Book (CPNB). The campaign aims to encourage the reading of children who don’t read yet.
The Reading & Writing Foundation is an initiative of Princess Laurentien and it was launched on May 27, 2004. Since January 2014, the Princess is Honorary Chairman of the Foundation.
The Foundation’s goal is to prevent and reduce illiteracy in the Netherlands and internationally.
Started on January 22, the National Reading Days will last until Saturday February 1st.
During National Reading Days, across The Netherlands, at nurseries, kindergartens, libraries and schools, will take place many events in order to promote the reading. At this event participate politicians, mayors, athletes, columnists, actresses, presenters, singers, rappers, footballers.

Hoog bezoek! Prinses Laurentien leest Zoetermeerse kinderen voor – https://t.co/ZO2xie2aFS pic.twitter.com/11kuSaZRVO

— indebuurt Zoetermeer (@indebuurtztmeer) January 22, 2020

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