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Room on the Broom Song (picture book) by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Macmillan) Jungle Jingles by Dick King-Smith (Corgi) Viking at School by Jeremy Strong (Puffin) Stealer of Souls by Diana Wynne Jones (Collins) Where Your Wings Were by David Almond (Hodder)
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, World Book Day is a charity event in March, held annually on the first Thursday and coinciding with the release of special editions. [10] The annual celebration on 23 April is World Book Night, an event organized by independent charity The Reading Agency. [11]
Danielle Culpepper. Laura Perrings. Adam Miller. Website. www.rarebookschool.org. Rare Book School (RBS) is an independent 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization based at the University of Virginia. It supports the study of the history of books, manuscripts, and related objects. Each year, RBS offers about 30 five-day courses on these subjects.
Middle School: Million Dollar Mess (2024) Related books. How I Got Lost in London (27 February 2014) World Book Day story, featuring Rafe on a school trip to England. Public School Superhero (7 May 2015, with co-author Chris Tebbetts), Kenny Wright is a "Grandma's Boy" struggling with sixth grade in a tough inner city school. But in his ...
World Book Day (UK and Ireland) World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March. On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK and the Republic of Ireland is provided with a voucher to be spent on books; the event was first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1998.
The World Book Capital programme during the year 2011 was held in Buenos Aires in Argentina. The project unit "Unidad de Proyectos Buenos Aires Capital Mundial de Libro" was created especially for the occasion and was run by Luciana Blasco. [41] The three pillars of the Buenos Aires 2011 World book Capital were: The promotion of books
Quick Reads are a series of short books by bestselling authors and celebrities. With no more than 128 pages, they are designed to encourage adults who do not read often, or find reading difficult, to discover the joy of books. Quick Reads are a collaboration amongst leading publishers, supermarkets, bookshops, libraries, government departments ...
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...