Happy Children’s Book Week

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By Akindman

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

— J. K. Rowling

It all began with the idea that children's books can change lives. Since 1919, Children's Book Week has been celebrated nationally in schools, libraries, bookstores, family homes--in fact, any place where there are kids and books. The need for CBW is as essential today as it was back in 1919, when the first Book Week event took place. Since 1944, the Children's Book Council--a non-profit organization--has developed materials and promoted and encouraged local celebrations of this national event.

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"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."

— Emilie Buchwald

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"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read."

— Marilyn Jager Adams

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"Books were my personal pass to freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."

~ Oprah Winfrey

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Links:

http://www.bookweekonline.com/

http://blog.firstbook.org/

http://www.rif.org

http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/_74

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/392/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXJr5l6wOz8

Some quotes to share…

The following are a series of quotes concerning New Years and are meant to make you think ...  smile ...  and reflect on while helping you make your resolutions for the upcoming year.

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right"

-- Oprah Winfrey (media proprietor/businesswoman)

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

-- Hal Borland (author/journalist)

"A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other."

-- Anonymous

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

-- Albert Einstein (the 'father' of modern physics)

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."

-- Bill Vaughn (author)

"We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."

-- Edith Lovejoy Pierce (English poet)

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."

-- Henry Ford (industrialist/founder of Ford Motor Company)

"Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits."

--Anonymous

"To the old, long life and treasure;  To the young, all health and pleasure."

-- Ben Jonson (actor, typically cast in Westerns)

"It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets."

-- William Thomas (pro football player 1991-2001)

"I never worry about action, but only about inaction."

-- Winston Churchill (British politician and statesman)

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else."

-- Yogi Berra (baseball great)

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things."

--John Burroughs (American naturalist: 1837-1921)

"Write in on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (American poet)

"Don't bunt.  Aim out of the ballpark."

-- David Oglivy (British advertising executive)

"Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old:  here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold."

-- Anonymous

May the New Year bring us all happiness, good health, prosperity, peace and love.