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Thanks for sharing Greg.
<div class=""> I look forward to my learned RHOF colleagues’ responses. All of this is new for me.</div>
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<div class="">On 4 Oct 2021, at 3:15 am, Greg Brooks <<a href="mailto:g.brooks@sheffield.ac.uk" class="">g.brooks@sheffield.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">An item about Amanda Gorman in a recent issue of the Guardian newspaper in the UK:</div>
<div class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/25/amanda-gorman-i-wanted-my-words-to-re-sanctify-the-steps-of-the-capitol" target="_blank" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/25/amanda-gorman-i-wanted-my-words-to-re-sanctify-the-steps-of-the-capitol</a><br class="">
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<div class="">included the intriguing fact that HoP got her started as a reader.</div>
<div class="">Back in the day (much too long ago to have been in Amanda Gorman's lifetime) I remember </div>
<div class="">1) attending a large literacy conference in Paris funded by HoP, which included a long evening dinner on a bateau mouche cruising up and down the Seine, complete with jazz trio<br class="">
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<div class="">2) that, not long after that, HoP collapsed because of being sued for misleading advertising.</div>
<div class="">Colin Harrison (our webmeister) pointed me to the company's chequered history summarised here:</div>
<div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Phonics" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Phonics </a></div>
<div class="">Now I thought that IRA (as it then was) had been involved in the suit against HoP, but there's mention of that on that wiki page.</div>
<div class="">And I gather that HoP rose from the seeming dead, not once but twice and is apparently thriving.</div>
<div class="">Over to others for more!</div>
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