For another year, the IBBY organization celebrates International Children's Book Day, which, as we have mentioned many times, has been celebrated on April 2, the birthday of the writer Hans Christian Andersen, since 1967. This year, the honor goes to the country of Canada, and here is its message for 2022.
Stories are wings that help you soar every day
Reading is freedom. Reading is breath.
Reading lets you see our world in a new way and it invites you into worlds you never want to leave.
Reading allows your spirit to dream.
They say books are friends for life and I agree.
The perfect universe of you only grows when you read.
Stories are wings that help you soar every day so find the books that speak to your spirit, to your heart, to your mind.
Stories are medicine. They heal. They comfort. They inspire. They teach.
Bless the storytellers and the readers and listeners. Bless books. They are medicine for a better, brighter world.
Mahsi cho*. Thank you very much.
Written by Richard Van Camp
Poster illustrated by Julie Flett
Source: IBBY
*means thank you in the native Guich in Alaskan language
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