While it is Friday here in Australia, it is Thursday in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where they are celebrating World Book Day. Despite the name, the celebration is geographically limited, with the rest of the world celebrating the event on April 23, which was chosen as it is "a symbolic date for world literature for on this date and in the same year of 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo" - UNESCO.
The event in the UK aims to have 1 million children read to. That sounds like a good aim, even though I am on the other side of the globe in a different time zone. So I am pledging to read to my two (even though I always do). How about you?
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