Eileen Scheckle is a senior lecturer in language and literacy in the Faculty of Education at Nelson Mandela University. She is passionate about developing all forms of literacy, both inside and outside schools. She has been an active member of LITASA, the Literacy Association of South Africa, for a number of years and uses the LITASA conference to provide spaces for various literacy endeavours to be shared and promoted. She encourages all her students to read for enjoyment and have a repertoire of books they can recommend to classroom learners one day.