THE FIRST NEWS READING TOUR
WITH HANK ZIPZER

FIRST NEWS was really excited when we went on the road this summer to meet readers in schools across the country.

Also with us was author Henry Winkler. Your parents and teachers know Henry best as a top television and movie actor. He starred as The Fonz in a TV show called Happy Days – he was the coolest dude on the planet.
Now you all know Henry best as the author of some brilliantly funny books about a boy called Hank Zipzer. Hank is smart, creative and funny. He also has dyslexia which means that school is hard for him. Henry knows a lot about that because he has dyslexia too – but it hasn’t stopped him becoming the author of these best-selling novels for children which will make you laugh out loud! You can read the second book in First News every week.
Henry says: “School was unbelievably hard for me. Teachers didn’t know what dyslexia was at that time. So I was labelled a trouble maker. I was the class clown. I got a bad grade in everything but lunch. I was great at lunch!"

“I was told I was stupid, lazy and not living up to my potential most of my life. And, when you’re younger and you’re told that, you believe it. It’s part of your self image.
Just because we learn differently, that does not mean that we are not incredibly smart human beings. That’s something I need every child to understand.”

On the tour First News editor, Nicky Cox, talked to children about newspapers. Two years since its launch, First News is already the widest-read children’s publication in the UK with 763,800 readers a week and is read in one in five schools nationwide.  She gave hints and tips about writing newspaper reports.
The second Hank Zipzer book, “I Got A D in Salami” is being serialised in First News right now in First News.

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