Is reading worthwhile? Why? Can a reader be cultivated? What do readers read? Where? What's the point? Does school create readers? Is not reading an educational deficit? In this book, Graciela Bialet offers us a journey full of questions for rebellious readers, for restless or unconventional serial readers, for all those who want to consider whether reading literature in childhood matters. What literature? What readings? Rebellious readers. And reasons why reading is worthwhile brings together a series of essays and anecdotes from the author's professional career: encounters with writers and students, ideas about the world and communication, a necessary pedagogy of reading, children's literature and sexual abuse, and a final invitation to the exercise of memory. With simplicity, agility, and beauty, Graciela shakes us out of our complacency, that complacency that tells us it's impossible to try to get children to read—that ultimately we're just doing what we can in this minefield—or that reading is for experts; And it leads us to the heart of the matter, to understand why things happen the way they do, to lift the veil and commit ourselves. Margarita Eggers Lan, from the Prologue