The Treasure Island author's fairytales are finally to be published in one set, as he intended
Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on a Samoan island. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
The literary betrayal of one of the most popular writers in the English language, Robert Louis Stevenson, is to be avenged in the first collected edition of the great Scottish writer's little-known Samoan fairytales. => http://bit.ly/eNcyY4
Hundreds of school children will be getting behind The Pyjama Foundation’s 3rd annual Reading Frenzy. Will your school take part? http://bit.ly/kMHD0K
IN BETWEEN red carpet premieres, presidential readings, prime-time television interviews and promotional balloon flights, Jeff Kinney, the creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, is trying to lead a normal life.
He holds a 9-to-5 job, and makes his family a priority by spending time with his two young boys in Plainville, a small town 48km southwest of Boston.
He is even the local scout master.
However, after-hours he indulges in his passion of drawing cartoon pictures to illustrate funny and honest journal entries by his nemesis, school student Greg Hefley - now a world-famous "wimpy kid". => http://bit.ly/jYkVOw
Over 120 years after it was condemned as 'vulgar' and 'unclean', an uncensored version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is published by Harvard University Press => http://bit.ly/muGqFO
The average human brain requires 7-10 hours of nightly slumber.
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The Going to Bed Book
(Board book)
By Sandra Boynton
And for a little one who is reluctant to go to bed, sometimes a silly book is just the ticket. And when it comes to silly books, Sandra Boynton is the undisputed queen. In The Going to Bed Book, an ark full of animals watches the sun go down and then prepares for bed.
Go to http://bit.ly/kMErxi for more about the book and to watch the trailer.
Peter FitzSimons
The shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good versus evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of terror, murders most foul, sexual slavery, natural nobility, survival, retribution, rescue, first contact with native peoples and so much more. => http://bit.ly/m5iXQl
“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, eerily foreshadowing a critical question in the age of digital media, “without pictures or conversations?”
Soon enough, she plunges down the rabbit hole and finds pictures and conversations aplenty. But her question lingers for us today in modified form. With electronic books — a technology teeming with children’s titles, many of them stunningly rendered for the Apple iPad — mere pictures and conversations are passé, at least pictures that don’t move and conversations that you can’t hear. Nobody has to feel sleepy or stupid anymore, not with a fully charged iPad with a book on it. => http://nyti.ms/iXddyt
When I was in Japan, I was fortunate enough to take part in a tea ceremony. I don’t think I understood much of what I was doing then, beyond experiencing the simplicity and elegance of the occasion. Recently, I ran across The Tea Ceremony, by Seno and Sendo Tanaka, and this beautiful book both brought back the memory and filled me in with many of the nuances I’d missed. It occurred to me that 3 concepts from the tea ceremony in particular have application to public speaking and are good advice for Western minds trying to improve their own – and their audience’s – experience. => http://bit.ly/jE108C
Audio books are great for long car journeys or other places where you can't physically read a book, but I'm not sure if they're a great idea for kids who are still building their reading skills. This Lego helmet lets kids simply look at the pictures while the stories are read aloud to them. => http://bit.ly/fgACOE
