Reading Aloud in New York - With Jon Scieszka

Best-selling children's writer and the US ambassador for children's literature, Jon Scieszka, takes us on a whistle stop tour of reading initiatives in New York.

Jon visits the Superhero store in Brooklyn where, behind a secret swinging shelf, there's an after school club which promotes reading and writing, as well as Wash and Learn, a massive laundromat where children get the chance to read and be read to.

Jon also takes a look at Messages From Ground Zero, a compilation of stories, poems and pictures created by children traumatised by the events of 9/11.

Later, he meets graphic novelist Dan Goldman who's just published a cartoon style diary of the Presidential Race called 08, and at Top Books for Kids, children's book historian, Leonard Marcus, picks his favourite American stories.

Finally, Jon visits The Strand Bookstore, a shop that boasts 18 miles of books.