{"id":1428,"date":"2010-04-22T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:46","slug":"further-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Further miscellany…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Glasgow<\/a>
The first tulip of the season after the longest winter, ever.<\/div>\n

Poor Volterra is being overrun with tourists. You know, the home of the Volturi? The imaginary Italian vampires from Twilight? Yeah. Them.<\/p>\n

Tourists. Coming to see them. Except, Volterra itself isn’t imaginary. It’s a little Italian town who had no clue<\/i> what anyone meant by Team Edward — and weren’t particularly interested in finding out. They’ve had to… learn to cope, while not getting run over and not turning the place where they have lived for centuries into a ticky-tacky tourist town (like the town next door, who threw themselves at filmmakers so they’re<\/i> in the movie, and not the actual town of Volterra! Volterra actually didn’t care.) They appear to have found a way to deal<\/a> – while still being able to look themselves in the mirror in the morning. Yay, Volterrans.<\/p>\n

<\/a> Has anyone else gotten the newsflash on WE GIVE BOOKS<\/b>? It’s … a book giveaway<\/a>. Or, rather, it’s a book donation program which allows people to read some really excellent children’s books online. For every free<\/i> online book a parent and child read together, a book is donated in realtime to Books Across America, Haiti Learning Spaces, Books for Asia, or any of several other reading promotional organizations — the reader gets to pick.<\/p>\n

Are you looking for a catch? I was. I mean, these are actual books you’ve heard of, some classics like Beatrix Potter and The Little Engine That Could<\/i>, some well-made new releases from DK Publishing and books like Spot Loves His Mommy<\/i>. There are three read-together libraries for kids ages 0-3, 4-7 and 8-10, although not all age groups have books selected for them just yet. I paged through Animal Families<\/i> from DK Publishing, and it was the same high-quality color photography that is in the paper text. Readers are given the option to just read the book online or buy it, of course, and I have a feeling that a lot of families will buy the book, so that they can read it and touch pages instead of screen. But reading is free — always. The giveaway is sponsored by The Penguin Group and The Pearson Foundation. “We Give Books,” the people said. It appears they do.<\/p>\n

Check it out<\/a>. Unless there’s something that I’m missing, this is a easy way to support reading initiatives in the U.S. and abroad, and spend some lap time with a little person as well. [Via Publishers Weekly]<\/p>\n

National Poetry Month is almost over! Are you getting your daily dose of poetry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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