TOLice Bigli, 48, lives in Rimini, and has always loved reading. Graduated in Educational Sciences, he worked 15 years in a specialized library and today holds reading courses in schools throughout Italy, In addition to dealing with training and updating of teachers, booksellers, educators, librarians and parents on the issues of education to reading and literature for children and teenagers. Founded Sea of books. Festival of boys who read (in progress until tomorrow 15 June in Rimini), of which he is president.
With Matteo Biagi he published Explorers of stories. How to create reading groups at school and outside (Mondadori). He defines herself “reading coach” (the same “logo” that uses in social networks and on the site Trainatoridilettura.it).
6.30 am
“I turn on the mocha I prepare the night before And after ten minutes I am already immersed in reading. On the sofa on the terrace. It is now that I can draw on my “deep concentration” at the most important moment of the day in which I am alone, in silence and without the distraction of notifications and phone calls. At 7.30 the children awake, the table the table and I always prepare different things for our breakfast. Fifty minutes all for us, we enjoy them. Straped eggs, toast, yogurt. Then they go to the summer center, accompanied by dad ».
8 am
«I’m going to walk to the sea or swimming in the pool under the house. It is another “sacred” hour of mine that I cut out on Monday and Friday. In the central days of the week I go away to hold courses in the classes everywhere. The rest of the morning I dedicate it to choose the books on which I will hold the courses that will start in the autumn, even if Throughout June they are absorbed by the Sea Festival of Books: Organize it, live it, and take stock of it. I am in love with childhood literature and adolescence: I think it returns the gaze to the world that belongs to the youngest but that in reality it is not forgotten, keeping it “trained” ».
Poster of the Sea Festival of Books, conceived by Alice Bigli.
1 pm
«I detach and eat alone in 30 minutes. Two bruschetta with oil and an sliced tomato are enough for me. They are very frugal and fast, also because from 14 to 16 I am used to managing children in the days without nanny. In the summer I take them to the sea, of course, that it is a bit home with us: it happens so that if I have to continue working it goes with the computer ».
5pm
«At this hour the festival is in full swing. I built it with teenagers of the reading groups that I meet once a month. I am The protagonists and together we chose the authors to be invited – Francesca Mannocchi, Enrico Galiano, Hope Larsen, Mariangela Gualtieri among many of this year – the formats of the meetings, the books on which we are discussed. Forty events in the sign of sharing the reading of the 11-18-year-old boys. It is pure volunteering, but today that we are at the eighteenth edition I have no doubt: I made my most burning passion “.
Among the milestones read to his children, also Pippi Calzelunghe.
19.30
«While the father prepares dinner, children read fifteen minutes alone. Then you eat something simple as legumes, fish and lots of vegetables together. At 9 pm I accompany them to bed and start reading me out of his voice for them. In recent years we have explored all the classics, starting from Roald Dahl and Astrid Lindgren. But once a week, however, I leave everyone at home and I leave alone. Cinema, theater, dinner. Together with the friend with whom I share cultural interests “.
11pm
“I prepare myself the second herbal tea of the day and I take a book to bedbut I only need to fall asleep because after two pages I have already collapsed. The real reading awaits me at dawn. Now the deep concentration is only to sleep ».
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