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Shirt.Woot Catalog. Book_spped-dating_-_RiponGrammarSchool. The Library Marketing Toolkit. Good slides matter. Helena Pielichaty's Diary of a children's writer. Background History A few years ago Tim Redgrave, then the deputy head at Ysgol Esgob Morgan Juniors in St Asaph, Denbighshire, brought his Y6 class to St Asaph Library to hear me give a talk as part of Denbighshire Libraries Book Week.

Helena Pielichaty's Diary of a children's writer

I must have been cooking on gas that day because I made a huge impression, not only on the children, but also on Tim. He never forgot the impact the visit had. Towards the end of last year (2010), I received an email from Tim, now headteacher at the school, telling me he’d had this idea for promoting and nurturing a love of reading. How about every school having a patron of reading? What is a patron of reading? A patron of reading is a school’s special, designated children’s author with whom the school forms a personal attachment. What does a patron of reading do? Other schools might have their own ideas about what a patron of reading does; that’s the beauty of it. What does the school do? So far Ysgol Esgob Morgan has: What impact has it had on the school? Top 10 Most Read Books in the World. 30 poster images with writing tips from famous authors [pictures] Do you want to know what great writers think of writing?

30 poster images with writing tips from famous authors [pictures]

Chris Ritter designed for the BuzzFeed a series of 30 poster images with the most useful writing tips from famous authors. You’ll get advice from Hemingway, Orwell, Chekhov, Steinbeck, Twain, and many more. Come back to those images any time you suffer writer’s block, or simply if you need a quick and fresh breeze of inspiration. Feel free to share the images. There are writers around who may need them as much as you do! For image credits, please visit the original post on BuzzFeed. If you’re interested in getting more quotes on books and reading, please check also this post: 20+ book quotes that you can share as images. Via Buzz Feed. About Friendly Staff A team of ebook geeks, sharing cool stuff related to ebooks, digital publishing, and the future of books. PostsTwitterFacebook Leave a comment Get free updates via email Powered by MailChimp Featured products Google Case for Nexus 7 Grey/Red Average rating: 3.9/5 Amazon $38.20.

20+ book quotes that you can share as images. I love book quotes, and I share a lot of them on our webpage, on Twitter, or on Facebook.

20+ book quotes that you can share as images

Quotes from famous writers are highly striking and inspiring, but there is one problem – in times of Internet and information overload even the strongest words may come unnoticed. Nowadays, the biggest challenge is to make words visible. I realized that sharing the same quote as a text has much less response than having exactly the same quote as an image. That’s why I’ve prepared more than 20 book quotes that are in a form of images.

You’ll find them in a picture gallery at the end of this post. There are many quotes on books and reading that are already visualized, some of them very beautifully, but some of the most convincing ones were left behind. Using the images to bring people closer to words may sound like a paradox, but’s it’s not. To create this set of quotes I used a very smart web tool called Share as Image. In times of the Internet words become cheap. About Piotr Kowalczyk Amazon $38.20. 50 most inspiring quotes about books and reading. The quotes about books you’ll see below are not the most famous ones. All of them, however, are highly motivating to rediscover the pleasure of reading. You may ask, what book quotes have to do with the ebook site.

Ebook sites are still mostly focused on the issues related to technology rather than pleasures of reading. We believe that a reader has to learn only as much technology as it’s needed to fully enjoy the magic of reading. Reading in times of digital content is changing, but it doesn’t mean it gives less pleasure. There is absolutely no difference between a hardcover book or an audiobook or a multimedia book application.

The biggest pleasure comes from what we read, not from on what we read. The real difference, though, lies in our attitude to reading. Best quotes from books – recommended sites There are many sites where you can order your favorite book quote printed on a poster, mug, t-shirt, and tens of other products. Read also 50 most inspirational quotes from books Top article.