On Sunday (April 23) we celebrated World Book Day. I’d not heard of this event till a couple of years back, but since then, I try to commemorate it in some way or the other.
I’ve blogged about it in detail some time back, so if you want to know more about why this particular day and what happens on this day, click here to find out more!
2017 is the 20th year that UNESCO is celebrating World Book Day.
Every year, books are chosen as special world book day books and the selections this year are:
- Peppa Loves World Book Day (for pre-schoolers)
- Everyone Loves Underpants by Claire Freedman (for pre-schoolers)
- Where’s Wally? The Fantastic Journey by Martin Handford (for children aged 5-7)
- The Famous Five: Good Old Tim and Other Stories by Enid Blyton (for children aged 5-7)
- Horrid Henry – Funny Fact Files by Francesca Simon (for children aged 5-7)
- Princess Mirror-Belle by Julia Donaldson (for children aged 5-7)
- Butterfly Beach by Jacqueline Wilson (for children aged 7-9)
- Blob by David Walliams (for children aged 7-9)
- Island by David Almond (for children aged 11-14)
- Dead of Night by Michael Grant (for children aged 11-14)
The World Book Day website has some really interesting resource packs for your child, be they in pre-school and nursery, primary school or secondary school. Click the link in the respective age group to access the resource packs.
Every year, UNESCO and the international organisations representing the three major sectors of the book industry viz. publishers, booksellers and libraries, select the World Book Capital for the year, effective from 23rd April each year for an entire year. This year’s World Book Capital for 2017 is Conakry, Guinea on account of the quality and diversity of its programme, in particular its focus on community involvement as well as for its well-structured budget and clear development goals with a strong emphasis on youth and literacy.
Governments, schools and libraries across the world celebrate this year to encourage people to read more! So did you read something on Sunday? If no, don’t fret! Just read a book today and celebrate World Book Day today! Go on, read a book now…
On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries.
In a land of exotic splendor, a young Englishwoman finds herself the guardian of an orphan child believed by a dying maharajah to be endowed with magical gifts. It is a role that will take her on a perilous journey into a kingdom’s walled city to protect a child she doesn’t know from a culture she doesn’t understand…
Abraham Isaac, teacher of Latin, philosopher and father, has, after many years, a young pupil. Teaching pulls him back into his memories: of Rose, his first love; Mercy, his stubborn sister; and most of all of Rani, his beloved wife. Of days of youth and promise, when he threw himself into the politics of Singapore in the 50s and 60s. Days when temperance and restraint gave way to action and desire. Days when the culture and society of Singapore were defined and moulded. Days when he believed he had a valuable role to play as a proud citizen of a new country. But now he is old, and the burden of his years weighs on him heavily. Distanced from a present devoid of idealism and obsessed with power and money, Abraham is estranged from his strong, successful son. Descending into the past, Abraham is led from the promise of youth, through cynicism born of experience, to an understanding and reconciliation of his life and times hard-won in maturity.
Set in Singapore in the fifties, the novel focuses on the story of Han.
