Motivating Literacy Learners in Today's Worldprovides insights into a broad spectrum of children'sliteracy learning. Motivation is the key theme andthe authors show how this can be achieved throughreading for pleasure; in writing activities at a numberof levels; and through oral language development.They demonstrate how the active promotion ofculturally appropriate pedagogical approachessupport motivation and engagement in literacylearning. There is a valuable discussion of the issuessurrounding motivation for students who strugglewith decoding text as well as strategies for practicethat can overcome barriers and improve learning.How creative and interactive processes of drama canbe used to contextualise and animate text provide afresh insight into innovative ways to motivate literacylearning. There are also challenges to the commonlyheld conceptualisation of being literate created bythe use and potential of digital technologies. Thisconcept of multiliteracies opens the way for thinkingabout contexts, modalities and ways of knowing intoday's world.