Reading Tigers

Thank you for this !

Have you read The Blue Dinosaur by Vaishali Shroff? It takes young readers through the amazing and often undocumented path of Indian palaeontology. Speaking with the enthusiastic Vaishali yesterday led me to the Dinosaur Princess of India, Aaliya Sultana Babi, who features in her book as well.

What a fascinating story this is!

From Royalty to Relics: The Fascinating Story of India’s Dinosaur Princess, Aaliya Sultana Babi India's very own 'Jurassic Park', the Balasinor Fossil Park, lies nestled in the tiny Raiyoli village of Gujarat's Khera district. And guarding the Park’s 65-million-year-old eggs is a fiercely passionate, dinosaur-loving princess.

I love my Kindle and the fact that I can carry around the four books I am currently reading in it. But I sorely miss and deeply adore the tactility of the book. The fact that one knows immediately how much of the book one has left to read; one can gaze back at and admire the cover again and again, and that one can take a look again at the blurb, the spine or just about anything on the physical book. The combined geniuses of Neil Gaiman and Douglas Adams at play here!

Thank you so much for this, Radhika Nedungadi!

It's World Book Day! What are you doing to celebrate?
Here are some ideas:
* Throw a book party with books as return gifts
* Gift yourself a book
* Make bookmarks for yourself or your friends!
* Read someone a story
* Draw a character from a book
* Name 10 books you love!
* Call friends over, eat snacks and read out from a book you love!

In Lithuania, March 16 is celebrated as Knygnešio diena, or the Day of the Book Smugglers, to commemorate the birthday of Jurgis Bielinis, a newspaperman who created a secret distribution network in order to smuggle banned Lithuanian books into the country. The ban was a result of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, which brought with it militaristic efforts to enforce Russification—including a mandate to replace all Lithuanian-language works printed in the Latin alphabet with Cyrillic works.

The Fascinating History of Lithuania’s Day of the Book Smugglers In Lithuania, March 16 is Knygnešio diena, or the Day of the Book Smugglers, to commemorate the birthday of Jurgis Bielinis, who created a secret distribution network in order to smuggle banned Lithuanian books into the country.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/23/upside-down-day-julian-scheer/

Upside Down Day: Rare and Wonderful Vintage Children’s Book by the Head of NASA’s Public Affairs Office A charming ode to those times when everything seems backwards.