During Rainforest of Reading week there’s no time to watch televison at the end of a day but local broadcasters are only too happy to capture the sight and sounds of 8,000 excited young readers. Here’s how DBS “This Morning” show captured Sonya on camera in 2018 and 2017.
Reading brings us unknown friends.
HONORÉ DE BALZACNovelist (1799-1850)
It is by acts and not ideals that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEAuthor (1844-1924)
The future is always beginning now. Each moment is a place you've never been.
MARK STRANDPoet (1934-2014)
Challenging literacy developmentAlthough 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 WALCOTTSt. Lucian author & 1992 Nobel Laureate
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
WILLIAM JAMESPhilosopher, Psychologist (1842-1910)
Start some kind words on its travels. There is no telling where the good it may do will stop.
Sir Wilfred GrenfellHumanitarian, Medical Missionary (1865-1940)
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
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
MARTIN TUPPERAuthor (1810-1889)
All I know is what I have words for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Out of this worldAfter 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)
Find 52: The Road to Reading in GrenadaIn 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 you believe what you read...you can, quite literally, believe anything.
NORTHROP FRYEProfessor, Philosopher (1912-1991)
It's a long storyBooks 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 ANNANSecretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006)
Life is too deep for words so don't try to describe it, just live it.
C. S. LewisAuthor, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
If you get the right [words] in the right order, you might nudge the world a little.
Sir Tom StoppardPlaywright