BOOK DAY coming this 23rd April

Hi there!     music018_2 We are proud to announce another wonderful day devoted to one of the mostWorld-Book-Day-Boy exciting, thrilling, creative, awe-inspiring and plain COOL hobbies in the world,

 

READING

 

And we will be providing you with links to interesting sites about books, a poll on your favourite readings and a top 10 ranking by our teachers! Read on…

The World Book and Copyright Day stems from an initiative first taken in Catalonia, Spain.

    It has been traditional since the medieval era for men to give roses to their loved ones and since 1925 for the woman to give a book in exchange.

     The World Book Day is a yearly event on 23 April, organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. The Day was first celebrated in 1995.

    Common knowledge assumes that both Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day. This is not strictly true.

     Actually Shakespeare died ten days after Cervantes. If you want to know why the discrepancy, go to this link.

 

DID YOU KNOW?

  Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 2 April, International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children’s books.

fun to read

Here is the TOP TEN RANKING by our beloved teachers:

BOOKS WE LOVE

RECOMMENDED BY

the secret life of bees ANGIE
twilight CHRIS
wicked BELINDA
to kill a mocking bird RENATO
cinderella LEAH
if the buddha dated JOSIE
the pillars of the earth TERESA
julie & julia VANESSA
the curious incident of the dog at night time KATIE
fingers on your nape MARISA

Wanna contribute with your own choices?

Come on, do so! Send us via email

the titles of the books you love.

lctidiomas@hotmail.com

LET US KNOW. Many people identify some period in their lives by the music they listened to. Does a book do that for you? Tell us of a book that marked a time in your life.

I still remember the first fantasy books I bought. A trilogy I couldn’t leave in the shop, that thrilled I was with the idea of finding the first steps of a long collection I would be doing in many years to come.

Also, it made an unforgettable impression on me when I could finally read a book IN ENGLISH all by myself! Wow, that was a special occassion. It felt like a miracle. girly022_2

 

   Don’t forget to check the poll on the right column of the blog! And to finish this entry, I’d like to add a quote fitting to the topic.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.  ~Oscar Wilde

SOON TO COME: PHOTOS OF THE EVENT and a webpage on books and reading.

2 comments:

Javier said...

Congratulations for the blog! I think it is an excellent idea. I hope it will go on (and -soon- with lots of posts and comments).

Thank you for the "top ten" list (I'm a Harry Potter fan) and for all the excellent posts I have just read.

Belinda - lctidiomas said...

Someone is out there! Thanks a lot, Javier. An answer at last from a living soul. Because it feels sometimes as if I were writing to ghosts in the air. :-)

I'm so glad you liked the posts. I hope they will be improving in time. Thanks again and come back!