The names of 10 children and adolescents who borrowed the most books from the cultural and artistic centers of the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents across the country from the beginning of 1403 to the end of Aban were announced.

According to the reportSpecialized Association for Children and MediaAccording to the General Department of Public Relations and International Affairs of the Association, the statistics of the top children and adolescents who read books at the Association’s cultural and artistic centers during Book and Book Reading Week were extracted from the Association’s comprehensive performance system and by the Association’s General Department of Cultural Creations. This statistic is based on the book loans of members nationwide, and the figure is between 279 and 750 books per member.

According to this news, the names have been announced by age group: Nobaveh (over four years old), Nokhwan (over seven years old), Nonhal (over nine years old), Nongah (over 12 years old), and Juvenile (over 15 years old).

Accordingly, in the “Nobaveh” age group, Hasna Sharifian borrowed 292 books from Center No. 2 of the Islamshahr Center of the Tehran Province, and Sara Hajianzadeh borrowed 279 books from the Kaki Center of the Bushehr Province.

Also in the “Nouveau Khuan” age group, Artin Taghipour from Center No. 5 of the Ardabil Association with 538, Narges Bani Asadi from the Sarayan Center of the South Khorasan Province Association with 443, and in the “Nouveau Hall” age group, Baran Abdollahzadeh from Center No. 1 of the Mahabad Association of West Azerbaijan Province with 750. And Manli Mahmoudan from Center No. 8 of the Tehran Provincial Center for 748 Books has been ranked among the top readers of the Center for Intellectual Development.

In the “Nungah” age group, Roja Kalehvandi from Center No. 13 of the Kermanshah Provincial Association received 735 books, Mohammad Mehdi Bani Asadi from the Sarayan Center of the South Khorasan Provincial Association received 420 books, and in the “Youth” age group, Viona Begzadeh from Center No. 2 of the Islamabad Provincial Association received 420 books. Kermanshah 512 and Asal Shahhosseini from Center No. 2 of the Central Province Tourism Center with 323 books are among the top readers of these age groups.

Lending books is one of the most important activities of more than a thousand intellectual development centers for children and adolescents across the country. According to these statistics, these centers have lent more than 2,736,138 volumes of books to children during the same period.

This is while various cultural, artistic, and literary activities are carried out in the cultural and artistic centers of the Intellectual Development Center with the aim of studying books, and activities such as introducing books, reading books, reciting poetry, telling stories, painting or pottery, and performing plays using Among the book-centric activities of the center are book characters.

The 32nd edition of the Islamic Republic of Iran Book Week will be held from November 11 to 14, 2024, with the slogan “Reading for Empathy.”