[Reading-hall-of-fame] Amanda Gorman and Hooked on Phonics

[Greg Brooks]

Friends
An item about Amanda Gorman in a recent issue of the Guardian newspaper in
the UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/25/amanda-gorman-i-wanted-my-words-to-re-sanctify-the-steps-of-the-capitol
included the intriguing fact that HoP got her started as a reader.
Back in the day (much too long ago to have been in Amanda Gorman's
lifetime) I remember
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
2) that, not long after that, HoP collapsed because of being sued for
misleading advertising.
Colin Harrison (our webmeister) pointed me to the company's chequered
history summarised here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Phonics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Phonics>
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.
And I gather that HoP rose from the seeming dead, not once but twice and is
apparently thriving.
Over to others for more!
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