With MARCH 28 fast approaching I through it be good to talk authors & books, that have influenced and change the world and the way were think. Authors like Dr Seuss who would of recently celebrated his 108 th Birthday.
As well as over 40 Children's books, which included classics like Cat In The Hat, which I sure we all read over & over, Dr. Suess left us with many words of wisdom such as the ones on the left.
I wonder how many children grown up in today's world have had the opportunity to enjoy the fun and the rhyme contained in Dr Seuss. You know what I'm talking about the books that made us wiggled and giggle when we were Children, books like Green Eggs and Ham! . SHARING THE BOOKS with others on MARCH 28 @ 4PM isn't just for adults. I know by 4 pm in Australia schools out and here in Ipswich we're having our SHARE THE BOOK - FLASH MOB in Queens Park, which kids and the parents often visit after school. We're meeting opposite the cafe and I am hoping we can each give a book to someone enjoying coffee or an ice-cream after school or work.
What better way to Pay It Forward than to introduce a young one into the love of reading. As you prepare to be involve on MARCH 28 can I encourage you to read think about the book you will be sowing into some ones life rather than just picking a random book off a book shelf. In the words of Dr Seuss himself " The more you read the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you will go!"
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| Trevor's Assignment |
Have you ever wondered where Pay It Forward Experience all began? Well it began will a book by that very name. Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde. Which inspired the Warner Brothers Movie - Catherine The book is about Trevor's Social Studies assignment, In which Mr. St Clair encourages his students to design a project that will change the world. Young Trevor, hypotheses that if he change do three "big things" to change the lives of three people and they in turn Pay It Forward by doing something significant in the lives of three more people and so forth. Trevor draws it like this. After Jerry goes to jail and his elderly neighbour passes away, his experience seems to fail . . . but does it? The story goes on to record the ripple effects of Trevor's Social Studies Assignment. I am finding the book an easy read full of unexpected surprises. Strangely the book has challenged me about my own view of how I chose to live life as a Person with a disability and how much I am willing to expose myself as a person with a disability to those around me. Stay turned as I continue to read the book.
Also by the same author Catherine Ryan Hyde is When You Were Older. I have just read Sarah 's book review and it seems to follow in the same pattern as Catherine's other books, full of adventures twist's and turn's and Sarah's seems to think it is a page turner. The story of When You Were Older opens on September 11 2011 as the first plane crashes into the World Trade Centre. Running late for work Ben Russell answers the phone, to hear his mother has just passed away and he needs to return home to care for his two younger bothers one of who has a significant disability. Another book I am looking forward to reading . . .
