BOOK DAY 2015

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

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"Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth."

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

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"The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places."

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

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"There is no place like home."

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! by Dr. Seuss

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

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"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

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"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

The Twits by Roald Dahl

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"The more he gave away, the more delighted he became."

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

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"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been."

We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea by Arthur Ransome

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"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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"We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

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"A person's a person no matter how small."

Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss

15 Important Pieces Of Wisdom Found In Children's Books

1. A book is a gift you can open again and again. —Garrison Keillor

2. Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. —Kofi Annan

3. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. —Frederick Douglass

4. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him. —Maya Angelou

5. There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. —Frank Serafini

6. Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. —Emilie Buchwald

7. One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children. —Carl Sagan

8. You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. —Strickland Gillian

9. Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty.  It should be offered to them as a precious gift. —Kate DiCamillo

10. Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. —Vera Nazarian

11. Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. —Groucho Marx

12. There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. —May Ellen Chase

13. To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. —Victor Hugo

14. It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations—something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own. —Katherine Patterson

15. When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again. —Rumer Godden

16. We read to know we are not alone.—C.S. Lewis

17. So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky. —William James

18. There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. —Jacqueline Kennedy

19. The greatest gift is a passion for reading. —Elizabeth Hardwick

20. There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. —Marcel Proust

21. Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper “One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality. —L.R. Knost

22. Read, read, read. —William Faulkner

23. Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Then when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team. —Karen Witemeyer

24. Books are a uniquely portable magic. —Stephen King

25. Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. —E.P. Whipple

26. A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say, “How to Build a Boat.” —Stephen Wright

27. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. —Richard Steele

28. There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.—Jim Fiebig

29. A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time—proof that humans can work magic. —Carl Sagan

30. A house without books is like a room without windows. —Heinrich Mann

31. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. —Louis L’Amour

32. Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. —Tomie dePaola

33. It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can. —Jane Hamilton

34. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. —Anna Quindlen

35. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —Mark Twain

36. Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. —Art Spiegelman

37. He that loves reading has everything within his reach. —William Godwin

38. Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. —Voltaire

39. Wear the old coat and buy the new book. —Austin Phelps

40. I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. —JK Rowling

41. Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. —Kathleen Norris

42. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. —S.I. Hayakawa

43. I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. —Jorge Luis Borges

List of Fairy Tales

A Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet Aged Mother, The Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Alice in Wonderland Angel, The B Bearskin Beautiful Soup Beauty and the Beast Beetle who went on his Travels, The Bell, The Blue Beard Blue Light, The Brave Tin Soldier, The Bright Sun Brings It to Light, The Brother and Sister Brother Lustig C Caliph Stork Cat and Mouse in Partnership Cinderella Clever Elsie Clever Hans Cunning Little Tailor, The D Devil with the Three Golden Hairs, The Devil's Sooty Brother, The Doctor Knowall Donkey Skin Dwarf Nose, The E Elderbush, The Elf Mound, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Enchanted Horse, The Epilogue to Looking Glass F Fairy, The Faithful John Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The Fir Tree, The First Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The Fourth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The Fisherman and His Wife, The Fisherman and the Golden Fish Fitcher's Bird Five Peas from a Pod Flying Trunk, The Four Skillful Brothers, The Frog-Prince, The G Goblin and the Grocer, The Godfather, The Godfather Death Gold-Children, The Golden Bird, The Golden Goose, The Goldilocks and The Three Bears Good Bargain, The Gossip Wolf and the Fox Griffin, The Griselda H Hans in Luck Hans Married Hans my Hedgehog Hansel and Gretel Hare's Bride, The History of Little Mook, The Hop o' My Thumb How Doth the Little Crocodile Hunting of the Snark, The I Ib and Little Christina Iron John J Jabberwocky Jorinda and Joringel Juniper Tree, The K King of Persia and the Princess of the Sea, The King of the Golden Mountain, The King Thrushbeard Knapsack, The Hat, and The Horn, The Knight's Song, The L Leap-Frog, The Little Claus and Big Claus Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, The Little Ida's Flowers Little Red Riding Hood Lobster-Quadrille, The M Maid Maleen Mary's Child Master Cat, The or Puss in Boots Most Incredible Thing, The Mother Hulda N Nail, The Nightingale, The Nixie of the Mill-Pond, The O One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes Old Hildebrand Old Man and His Grandson, The Old Sultan Old Woman in the Wood, The Our Lady's Child P Peasant's Wise Daughter, The Pink, The Pinocchio Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat, The Prince Beder and the Princess Giauhara Princess and the Pea, The Prologue to Alice Prologue to Looking Glass Q Queen Bee, The R Rapunzel Red Shoes, The Rescue of Fatima, The Ricky of the Tuft Riddle, The Ridiculous Wishes, The Robber Bridegroom, The Rumpelstiltskin Ruslan and Ludmila S Saucy Boy, The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The Seven Ravens, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The Singing Bone, The Singing, Soaring Lark, The Six Swans, The Sixth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The Sleeping Beauty Shadow, The Shoes of Fortune, The Snowman, The Snow Queen, The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Speak Roughly to your Little Boy Story of a Youth, The Story of the False Prince, The Story of the King's Son, The Sweet Porridge Sweetheart Roland Swineherd, The T Tale of the Dead Princess, The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Third Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The Three Brothers, The Three Languages, The Three Little Men in the Woods, The Three Snake-Leaves, The Three Spinners, The Thumbelina Thumbling Tinder-Box, The Toads and Diamonds Travelling Companion, The Twelve Brothers, The Twelve Huntsmen, The Two Brothers, The Two Travelers, The U Ugly Duckling, The V Valiant Little Tailor, The Voice of the Lobster, The W Walrus and the Carpenter, The Water Nixie, The What One Can Invent White Snake, The Willful Child, The Willow-Wren and the Bear, The Wise Folks Wishing-Table, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, The Wonderful Musician, The Y You Are Old, Father William Young Giant, The

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Fairy tales,  Book Day Celebrations                    May 2015

Topic: Fairy tales and stories

Aims:   - To help students talk about stories

- To expand students’ vocabulary

- To develop students’ writing skills

Introduction

What do you remember about Snow White or The Three Little Pigs? In this lesson,  students talk about well-known stories. They revise story telling  vocabulary and then plan and write/draw/tell  a fairy tale.

Procedure   Lead in: Fairy tales  Hand out the list of fairy tales to students or write the list on the board.

Ask students which ones they know, what the fairy tales are called in the  students’ languages and who are the main characters in each story. They can add more fairy tales to the list?            

Fairy tales:         Jack and the Beanstalk         Little Red Riding Hood       Snow White

Hansel and Gretel        Beauty and the Beast         Rapunzel      The Ugly Duckling

Cinderella          The Three Little Pigs                Goldilocks and the Three Bears

                                                                         

Students can find Fairy Tales on the Internet working with their XO´s and they can watch short videos from different movies/cartoons/ from YouTube.

Students can choose their favourite Fairy Tale and draw their favourite book character, describing him/her orally. The poster can be displayed in class and used in following classes as a warm up.

The Emperor’s New Clothes

Task 1: Fairy tale quiz

• Hand out task 1. Ask students to do the quiz in small groups. Then

correct as a class.

Answers task 1: 1B (from ‘The 3 little pigs’), 2B, 3B, 4A, 5C, 6CTask 1: Fairy tale quiz

Choose the correct answers with a partner.

1) Who says ‘I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down’?

A) a giant  B) a wolf   c) a witch

2) Snow White eats a poisioned:

A) apple  B) orange  C) banana

3) Hansel and Gretel find a house made of:

A) gold  B) sweets  C) straw

4) Cinderella wears shoes made of:

A) glass  B) gold  C silk

5) Rapunzel has very long:

A) nails  B) eyelashes  C) hair

6) How many bears did Goldilocks meet?

A) 1  B) 2  C) 3Task 2: Fairy tale framework.

Complete the details of this well-known fairy tale.

The start: Once upon a 1________….

Location: In the woods

Character 1:

A girl called Little 2________ Riding Hood. She wears a 3________ coat. She

is kind and brave.

Character 2:

A wolf. He has big 4________. He is wicked.

Basic situation:

A girl goes to visit her 5________. She finds a 6________ in her 7________’s

bed.

Outcome:

A woodcutter kills the 8________.

The end:

Task 3: Location and characters

1) Put these words and expressions in the correct columns. Can you add

more?

Bear

Beautiful

By the side of a river/lake

Cheerful

Cruel

Fairy

Frog

Giant

Generous

Godmother

Good-looking

Handsome

In a land far, far away

In a palace

In an old house

In the mountains/desert

Long hair

Mean

On the top of a mountain

Prince

Sad

Stepmother

Ugly

Unhappy

Witch

Location Characters

Appearance Personality

2) Which characters are usually goodies/baddies?TeachingEnglish | Lesson plans

Task 4: Write a fairy tale.

You are going to write a fairy tale. You can invent a story or write one of

the stories from task 1. First make some notes. Use the information in

Tasks 2 and 3 to help you.

The start:

The location:

Two or more characters plus their appearance and personality:

The basic situation:

The outcome:

The end:

Las 22 frases más bellas sobre los libros

1.- “Un libro abierto es un cerebro que habla; cerrado un amigo que espera; olvidado, un alma que perdona; destruido, un corazón que llora”. Proverbio hindú.

2.- “Los libros son, entre mis consejeros, los que más me agradan, porque ni el temor ni la esperanza les impiden decirme lo que debo hacer”. Alfonso V el Magnánino

3.- “Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca”. Jorge Luis Borges

4.- “Algunos libros son probados, otros devorados, poquísimos masticados y digeridos”. Sir Francis Bacon

5.- “Una casa sin libros es una casa sin dignidad”. Edmondo de Amicis

6.- “Si tienes una biblioteca con jardín, lo tienes todo”. Cicerón

7.- “El libro que no se dirija a la mayoría (en número e inteligencia) es un libro tonto”. Charles Baudelaire

8.- “Los libros son como los amigos, no siempre es el mejor el que más nos gusta”. Jacinto Benavente

9.- “Un libro, como un viaje, comienza con inquietud y se termina con melancolía”. José Vasconcelos

10.- “Los que escriben con claridad tienen lectores; los que escriben oscuramente tienen comentaristas”. Albert Camus

11.- “El mundo está lleno de libros preciosos, que nadie lee”. Umberto Eco

12.- “Ningún libro, como  ninguna buena casa, muestra todo su mérito desde el principio”. Thomas Carlyle

13.- “La obra clásica es un libro que todo el mundo admira, pero que nadie lee”. Ernest Hemingway

14.- “Los libros tienen su orgullo: cuando se prestan, no regresan nunca”. Theodor Fontane

15.- “No hay mejor fragata que un libro para llevarnos a tierras lejanas”. Emily Dickinson

16.- “El buen lector es el que hace el libro bueno”. Ralph W. Emerson

17.- “El libro que no soporta dos lecturas no merece ninguna”. José Luis Martín Descalzo

18.- “La verdadera universidad en nuestros días consiste en una colección de libros”. Thomas Carlyle

19.- “He buscado por todas partes el sosiego y no lo he encontrado sino en un rincón apartado, con un libro en las manos”. Tomás Kempis

20.- “He hecho un curso de lectura veloz y he leído Guerra y paz en veinte minutos. Habla de Rusia”. Woody Allen

21.- “Algunos libros son inmerecidamente olvidados; ninguno es
inmerecidamente recordado”. Wystan H. Auden

22.- “Un buen libro es aquel que se abre con expectativas y se cierra con provecho”. Aimos Alcott