A comprehensive and honorable program for holding small book-reading groups across the country with the aim of reading books, discussing them, writing a letter to their authors, and selecting and introducing the best books that children have read. Three Book Club Cups have been held so far and children and teens across Iran are preparing for the fourth one whose recall will be announced soon. The Children Book Club Cup is a competition among book clubs in cities and villages across Iran whose fourth recall will be held in 2019 with the following conditions: Book Clubs are a permanent activity and any time of year under the conditions set out in this manual, eligible enthusiasts can register their club in the site.
The clubs registered in the previous years are also officially accepted in 2019 and they can participate in the Club Cup and enjoy book discounts. The facilitators are allowed to set up clubs who have participated in the workshops and the ones who did the previous courses can also set up a new club. A new course of workshops will be also held for facilitators in various cities in the year 2019 according to the manuals. The workshops will be held by the trainers who have participated in the provincial training workshops and are qualified based on the manual. Facilitators work voluntarily.
According to the manual, they can register for the book club after passing the training workshop. The registered book clubs can participate in the Reading Club Cup competitions. Both urban and rural book clubs to participate in the Reading Club Cup must first compete in the Reading Club Cup in their own county. In this competition, participants will compete in various fields including the selected club, the selected letter, the selected film, the selected book, the selected facilitator and the selected bookseller.
