30/03/2026
Norsk lesing får internasjonal oppmerksomhet.
The Sunday Times har blant annet besøkt Lillehammer bibliotek og litteraturhus i en reportasje om den norske lesekrisen – og innsatsen for å få lesingen tilbake.
Boklek er en del av dette viktige arbeidet, og vi er glade for å se hvordan tiltak som vårt løftes frem som en del av løsningen.
«At 10am in the library on Wednesday, there were 47 children listening to the story, with their 12 teachers, all sitting in socks, not shoes, in the children’s section. At midday, there were another 59 children from other kindergartens.
They do not listen silently. They were encouraged, by the storyteller, Kristine Haugland, to get involved — patting their head to check it is still there, and counting the number of socks on Robert’s messy bathroom floor.
It is reading, but not the quiet, dull type that puts off so many children. The aim is to show the children, and their teachers, how reading can be fun.
The same book is read to all children that year, and a copy given both to their kindergarten and their new class at primary school. It is designed to make them feel comfortable when they make the move to big school.»
Welcome to the latest chapter in Norway’s attempts to reverse its catastrophic decline in reading. It might have one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds — about £1.5 trillion, and rising by the day — and the highest percentage of electric car sales — 96% — but Norway, temporarily, forgot about the importance of books.
But the fightback has truly begun. Money is being poured into new strategies to get children reading again — and adults, constantly staring at their phones, are being targeted too
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📸 Barbora Hollan for The Sunday Times
