ST. LUCIA CELEBRATES FESTIVAL’S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: MARCH 12 – 16, 2018 Each year we look for the essential ingredients of great stories. This year, we’ve combined important human themes of inclusion and diversity with not-so-inhuman monsters, dragons and pirates. 2018 may be the most exciting mix yet created by Canadian storytellers! Sonya White GUELPH — October 28, 2017. The long list was long indeed: Canadian publishers sent 150 titles to OneWorld Schoolhouse Executive Director Sonya White. But after...
The future is always beginning now. Each moment is a place you've never been.MARK STRAND Poet (1934-2014)
The future is always beginning now. Each moment is a place you've never been.
Start some kind words on its travels. There is no telling where the good it may do will stop.Sir Wilfred Grenfell Humanitarian, Medical Missionary (1865-1940)
Start some kind words on its travels. There is no telling where the good it may do will stop.
Find 52: The Road to Reading in Grenada In February 2015, Richard ran right around Grenada, a distance of 52 miles. 52 "Mile Captains" raised $40,000.
If we want to make this world a better place, then we have to become better ourselves. There is no easy route.DALAI LAMA
If we want to make this world a better place, then we have to become better ourselves. There is no easy route.
If you believe what you read...you can, quite literally, believe anything.NORTHROP FRYE Professor, Philosopher (1912-1991)
If you believe what you read...you can, quite literally, believe anything.
Reading brings us unknown friends.HONORÉ DE BALZAC Novelist (1799-1850)
Reading brings us unknown friends.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.WILLIAM JAMES Philosopher, Psychologist (1842-1910)
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
And the Winner in Montserrat is.... Marlaina White (Left) announces the Second Annual Rainforest of Reading Award to Illustrator Jan Dolby (Middle) and Author Joyce Grant for "Gabby."
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child to cross...that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever.BARACK OBAMA
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child to cross...that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever.
All I know is what I have words for.Ludwig Wittgenstein
All I know is what I have words for.
Out of this world After reading "Postcards from Outer Space' a student in Montserrat is inspired to be the next Chris Hadfield.
Too many people grow up. That's the trouble with the world.WALT DISNEY (1901-1966)
Too many people grow up. That's the trouble with the world.
It's a long story Books packed by kids in Ontario for their peers in the Caribbean travel 1,800 kilometres by road then another 5,275 kilometres by container ship.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.KOFI ANNAN Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006)
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
Life is too deep for words so don't try to describe it, just live it.C. S. Lewis Author, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Life is too deep for words so don't try to describe it, just live it.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.MARTIN TUPPER Author (1810-1889)
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
If you get the right [words] in the right order, you might nudge the world a little.Sir Tom Stoppard Playwright
If you get the right [words] in the right order, you might nudge the world a little.
It is by acts and not ideals that people live.ANATOLE FRANCE Author (1844-1924)
It is by acts and not ideals that people live.
Challenging literacy development Although English is the official language of St. Lucia, Krewyol is spoken as much or more outside the classroom.
I read. I travel. I become.DEREK WALCOTT St. Lucian author & 1992 Nobel Laureate
I read. I travel. I become.
