INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK DAY 02 April 2021 (STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO SHARE YOUR FAVOURITE CHILDREN'S STORY TO MARK THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DAY).

 

Helping to bring their imagination to life, books inspire, educate and encourage children to exercise their mind.

International Children’s Book Day is  designed to do just that and celebrate reading.  Reading books can help a child to learn and develop, and this can be difficult in certain parts of the world due to deprivation.

Not only does it encourage children to pick up a book and read, no matter what age they are, to celebrate International Children’s Book Day, but it can help to influence their habits for the future.

INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK DAY POSTER 2021 (Poster illustrated by Roger Mello)

INTERNATIONAL CHILDERN'S BOOK DAY MESSAGE 2021

The music of words

 

When we read, our minds grow wings.

When we write, our fingers sing.

 

Words are drumbeats and flutes on the page,

soaring songbirds and trumpeting elephants,

rivers that flow, waterfalls tumbling,

butterflies that twirl

high in the sky!

 

Words invite us to dance---rhythms, rhymes, heartbeats,

hoofbeats, and wingbeats, old tales and new ones,

fantasies and true ones.

 

Whether you are cozy at home

or racing across borders toward a new land

and a strange language, stories and poems

belong to you.

 

When we share words, our voices

become the music of the future,

peace, joy and friendship,

a melody

of hope.

 

Written by Margarita Engle