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Rudyard Kipling makes cakes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374992/Jules-Verne-Rudyard-Kipling-making-cakes-THird-UK-children-poor-literature-knowledge.html
I like the idea of putting poem and book extracts on cereal boxes.
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They aren't the sort of authors who children would have read about, or read their books. They are the age to associate Kipling with cakes and even Philias Fogg was turned into a children's animated series twenty years ago.
Make a disney/pixar movie now of their books- and personally Jules Verne's story would make great films-and every child would have heard of them, and read the accompanying movie book.
Rant over, but don't you just love the Daily Mail.
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Or how the met office doesn't always get the weather right but has a massive budget - I saw this one when researching material for an article about newspaper coverage of global warming.
After all, if we did that, there'd be no room on table to put the milk bottle, minus it's silver top would there?
But I do like the idea of putting literature on cereal boxes. I had that idea ages ago. Serial boxes where you read a new part of the story each time. My children always sit reading the back of the boxes while they have their breakfast.
But they wouldn't read literature on cereal boxes.
If schools were once again allowed to concentrate on the 3 Rs, rather than the content of the stuff they are doing, (whatever we learnt in history, geography etc when I was at (primary) school was immaterial - what was important was that we were reading and writing) more kids would learn to read, then the key to all knowledge would have been given to them. One good thing about the internet is that kids have to read to access it!
I can't ever remember my mum or dad reading a fiction book. My mum only read the paper and Dad sometimes read gardening books. Apart from gardening books there were only three books on the shelf: a dictionary, an antiques book and one of those doctor books that you can check your illness in!
But I read books all the time especially Enid Blyton, usually given to me by an Aunt.
i can't imagine living a life with no books it's such a scary thought.
I love your book idea, SIlent Tony!
[quote=kateyanne]Does that include Newspapers? No more Daily Mail?[/quote] Let's hope so.