About World Book day
World Book Day 2012 is a celebration – of authors, illustrators, books and, most importantly, of reading. It’s the biggest event of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in more than 100 countries. The main aim of World Book Day in the UK is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own, through a special £1 World Book Day Book Token.
My Son got a £1 pound token in school, and we are looking to see what book to get. He already has classics like The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle and the famous Where's spot? by Eric Hill
Please be encouraged to pick up a book and read today, and if you are not sure what to read, you can try the following. I have a metal book mark that lists these books.
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
- Bible by Various
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Quite American by Graham Greene
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- Money by Martin Amis
- The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
- Rebecca by Daphine du Maurier
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- On the Road by Jack Keruac
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Man Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
OK! you can also try my favourites, some not in the list above: My ultimate favourite- Black girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood- it reads like a poem, Autobiography of Malcom X by Alex Haley, Piercing the Darkness/This Present Darkness by Frank E Perretti, Jagua/Jagua Nana's Daughter by Cyprian Ekwensi. I also like some of Francine Rivers books, as well as John Grisham, and in the past Sidney Sheldon. I have also mentioned my childhood love for Pacesetters by various West African authors.
Presently I dabble in a mixture, and I have bought and thoroughly enjoyed: A thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin- very, very funny, Say You Are One Of Them by Uwem Akpan, The Other Hand by Chris Cleave, The Help by Kathryn Stockett- haven't seen the movie yet, its always so hard to watch a movie after you've read the book. I have also been a huge fan of the Shopaholic books by Sophie Kinsella- tried so hard to see the movie afterwards.
Favourable mentions are also Maya Angelou, Nigerian and African authors like Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie and Russian authors- I love the tone and writing style of Russian Literature.
READ A BOOK
xx.L
