Friday 23 April 2010

World Book Day



World Book Day is the biggest annual celebration of books and reading in the world. 23rd April: a symbolic date for world literature for on this date and in the same year of 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo. It was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone, and in particular young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and gain a renewed respect for the irreplaceable contributions of those who have furthered the social and cultural progress of humanity.


We celebrated it telling stories, tales, playing theatre plays, reciting poetry in our school library, and having a funny party in our classrooms.We enjoy a lot.

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