World Book Day – A New Day – Another Book
April 23rd, 2008 | Author: admin
Google is celebrating World Book Day today with the Google Literacy Project.
Over the course of time I think Google’s library scanning project will prove to be a greater gift to mankind than YouTube.
Reading a book is like having a long conversation with the author. A long conversation is a gift, as my wife has been teaching me. William Cowper said in his poem entitled Conversation; “… and Conversation in its better part, may be esteemed a gift.”
A children’s story about a talking dog, Martha Blah Blah, reminds us of the power of literacy in a funny way. “When the current owner of the soup company breaks the founder’s promise to have every letter of the alphabet in every can of soup, Martha, the talking dog, takes action.”
Read a good book to your children today, or let them read The Important Book to you (it’s all about having a conversation) … and in all your reading, don’t forget the most important book … and thank God for the gifts he gives us every day.
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