Through a meeting called “What’s going on in the Iran’s Children Literature?” (One of meetings held to introduce the world’s children literature) on June 16, 2019 “Read with Me” Program was introduced in the Japan’s International Library of Children’s Literature. In this program, Kiko Ayko and Sauri Katagiri, who are both Persian to Japanese translators, spoke about attractions of Iranian children literature and book-reading in Iran and introduced “Read with me” program as one of successful promoting reading programs in Iran. Accordingly, in order to be introduced with the program more, Kiko Ayko visited Zohreh Ghaini, director of Read with Me, and Hoorzad Attari, one of the facilitators of Read With Me,
“What’s Going on in the Iran’s Children Literature?” meeting is the 12th meeting of What’s Going on in the World’s Children Literature meetings which are supported by International Library of Children’s Literature and National Branch of the Japan’s World Pen Association. This meeting is held on the occasion of running a fair on Iranian children books, named “Land of Poetry and Myth- Iran Children Book” which it itself is a part of a plan held on the occasion of 90th anniversary of beginning of diplomatic ties between Iran and Japan in the International Library of Children’s Literature.
