I have just recently received a message from someone who has a travelling book. They have informed me it is off to England. How wonderful to think that the books are not only making their way to all corners of Australia but now overseas.
Half Way
I am half way there towards completing my goal. 182 books have been given out.
I do hope there are many children out there who have a travelling book in their hands and have spent some of the school holidays enjoying the magical world that a book can take you to.
I do hope there are many children out there who have a travelling book in their hands and have spent some of the school holidays enjoying the magical world that a book can take you to.
A Public Place
Inside the books that I send travelling. I ask people if they could kindly pass on the book to someone else at no charge or leave it in a public place to be found by someone else.
Here are some suggestions of great public places to leave one of the travelling books .......
Doctors waiting room
Seat pocket of the aeroplane
On a seat on the train or bus
Dentists waiting room
On a bench seat outside the library
In a plastic bag to prevent snails eating it and then in someones mail box down the street
In your local caravan parks laundry, computer room or ablution block
On a shelf inside the local supermarket
On a table at the local coffee shop
Any other suggestions are welcomed.
Here are some suggestions of great public places to leave one of the travelling books .......
Doctors waiting room
Seat pocket of the aeroplane
On a seat on the train or bus
Dentists waiting room
On a bench seat outside the library
In a plastic bag to prevent snails eating it and then in someones mail box down the street
In your local caravan parks laundry, computer room or ablution block
On a shelf inside the local supermarket
On a table at the local coffee shop
Any other suggestions are welcomed.
A variety have been sent this week
After the festive season break it is great to be back and to send more books on their travels. A variety has left my possession this week through a friends selling on eBay. So if you have recently purchased something from eBay and have a book in your possession you now know why.
A biography of Dawn French's Life called Dear Fatty. I find her hilarious in The Vicar of Dibley.
Another recipe book is travelling - "Authentic Recipes from Malaysia" - we have just returned from holidays there and the food is amazing.
A couple of good girly fictions - Jodi Picoult and a Maeve Binchy.
I have also sent travelling a book by Tana French called Faithful Place. I must admit I am a little concerned that it will be considered as a horror/murder type story full of gruesome bits. What is that saying, oh yes, judging a book by it's cover! However it is actually a great story about a man from a very dysfunctional family and how he left only to find himself returning when his girlfriend that he had planned to leave with turns up dead at the end of the street he grew up in. Good story. Whoever ends up with it, I do hope you give it a go.
Two children's books also left this week. Saved from landfill, they are ex library books. A series on horses called Thoroughbred.
If you have ended up with one of these books I do hope that you enjoy it or can find someone else who can enjoy it.
Cook Book
The Pasta & Italian Cookbook has now been sent out into the world as a travelling book. After my neighbour gave me the video Julie and Julia to watch I was inspired to send a cookbook out into the world to be used and shared.
I felt an Italian one would be the perfect selection as the Italians are known for their sharing of meals and this is what I am trying to promote - SHARING WITH STRANGERS.
It was a brand new beautiful book full of great menu ideas and colourful pictures when it left my hands in early December 2011.
Leave a message if it comes your way and let us know what your favourite dish was.
I felt an Italian one would be the perfect selection as the Italians are known for their sharing of meals and this is what I am trying to promote - SHARING WITH STRANGERS.
It was a brand new beautiful book full of great menu ideas and colourful pictures when it left my hands in early December 2011.
Leave a message if it comes your way and let us know what your favourite dish was.
Thank You Students
I would like to thank all the students who have recently taken a travelling book.
Please don't forget to make sure that your book does not remain on a shelf, share it with someone else. That person can be a class mate, a friend from another school, your next door neighbour, someone you play sport with or someone from another class.
If you would like to keep track of where a book travels to, then visit the tab marked "catch and release" and hopefully each person will comment on the book they have recently read and where they are from.
Please don't forget to make sure that your book does not remain on a shelf, share it with someone else. That person can be a class mate, a friend from another school, your next door neighbour, someone you play sport with or someone from another class.
If you would like to keep track of where a book travels to, then visit the tab marked "catch and release" and hopefully each person will comment on the book they have recently read and where they are from.
Reading expands our thought process and can take us to a wonderful place called imagination.
ENJOY.
Found A Teacher
A teacher was found who was willing to have 30 books enter her classroom. It is pleasing to report that the students are actually sharing them among themselves and with their peers in other classrooms in the same year. Some books have already been read by three and four students. Children enjoying and reading a book - it doesn't get much better.
UPDATE - travelling books have now gone into 3 classrooms - over 60 students now with a book and reading.
Children's books are now travelling
My thoughts today turned to ebay as I pondered the purchase of a groovy looking pair of pants. These ebay parcels crisscross the world every day. I know people who sell items on ebay. I made a call and I now have my books crisscrossing the country with already purchased ebay items. I am just wondering how her customers will feel when not only do they get the lipstick they bid on but also a free children's book with a note asking them to find a child who will enjoy it. Time will tell.
ANY TEACHERS OUT THERE????
Are there any teachers out there who would be willing to have some children's books of various age groups posted to their class and have their students take on the responsibility of distributing the books, perhaps even after they have been read ???
ANY TEACHERS OUT THERE????
Are there any teachers out there who would be willing to have some children's books of various age groups posted to their class and have their students take on the responsibility of distributing the books, perhaps even after they have been read ???
Please email me.
Distribution of the books
I now have many books to send out into the world
for people to enjoy. However my aim is for the books to end up in the hands of
strangers. So now I find myself constantly thinking about methods to get these
books distributed.
As "A Friend Like Henry" is my first
book and I really wanted to make sure this books does the rounds for at least a
year. So I opted to have it read by a girlfriend who is a teacher. I heard from her
today and she has completed the book (apparently couldn't put it down). She has
written her name in it and ensures me she has forwarded it onto a girlfriend of
hers who lives a few hours away. So soon it will be in the hands of a stranger.
My girlfriend is also going to help me to get a few other books distributed by
posting them to people she knows. Not my perfect solution, but at least it will get a few books out there travelling to begin the process.
Over time posting off books will become expensive
and cut into my household budget. I have purchased however a dozen post packs to assist in getting some books out there and travelling. Once these post packs are gone they are gone. So hence the thinking cap went on today about
how to distribute these books. After all my aim is for there to be no cost to
anybody, so I don't want to be requesting friends to post books on to someone else. I just want to encourage everyone I can to read a book, find enjoyment and then pass it onto someone else.
I have been having day dreams about people on a
plane, a bus or even a train reading one of my books and when they have completed it, they pass it to a
complete stranger in the next aisle for them to enjoy. People finding one of my
books left on a bench seat in a park. I have thought about putting some of my
books into medical waiting rooms in the hope someone will take it home and forget their
health concerns for a few hours and be transported to an imaginary world. The
day dreams have been taking over all of my thoughts today. Very little else is
getting done on my “to do list”.
I decided this morning to get a few books and put
them into a bag in the car. I had to head into town to pick up a few things. I
took The Black Candle by Catherine Cookson, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and
Read Better, Remember More by Elizabeth Chelsa. I was hoping that an
opportunity of some sort would raise itself on who I could give the books to or where I could leave them for someone to pick up.
I am trying to remain as anonymous as possible at present so I can't exactly just walk up to someone and hand them a book. After all I live in a country town and everyone knows everyone. So it wouldn't take long for the rumour mill to start working. Also I have no idea of what people's prefered taste in books is. So I just left it in the hands of fate and hoped I would find a way to distribute the books.
I am pleased to report I did. As I headed into town I passed the local caravan park filled with tourists. The first three caravans had people sitting outside enjoying the sunshine and reading. I had found the books destination. I pulled the car up near the ablution blocks around the corner and collected my three books and headed for the building. Thankfully no-one seemed to be concerned with me walking through the park. I put the books into the laundry on the bench with notices on them that they are travelling books. I am now day dreaming about an avid reader who is travelling Australia picking up the books, reading them on their way to their next destination and leaving them at another caravan park for someone else to enjoy. One can only hope.
So I am now at day two of distribution and I have managed so far to get four books travelling.
Children's books
After a few hours of surfing the web it has come as a shock on how many Australia Children are actually staring at a screen each day for hours. Are the literacy rates of Australian students getting worse with each passing year ?
I am very grateful that I have children who are readers.
I am now on a mission to get as many Children's Travelling books out into the worlds as I can, in the hope some-one will read the book to a child or a child will be inspired to read.
Here goes.
My Local Op Shop
Thank you op shops.
They have been a wonderful supply of books for my mission. I cannot believe how many children's books they have for sale and so many of them are brand new, never been opened, never even had a page corner turned over as a page mark, not even a crease in the spine to indicate it has been read and many still have the price tag on them. Perhaps an unwanted gift?
A note to anyone looking to buy books for a child, try your local secondhand store they are full of them.
My mission is to buy the books in my local op shop that are still new and get them travelling. My goal is having another impact on the world around me, I am now donating money to charity as well.
They have been a wonderful supply of books for my mission. I cannot believe how many children's books they have for sale and so many of them are brand new, never been opened, never even had a page corner turned over as a page mark, not even a crease in the spine to indicate it has been read and many still have the price tag on them. Perhaps an unwanted gift?
A note to anyone looking to buy books for a child, try your local secondhand store they are full of them.
My mission is to buy the books in my local op shop that are still new and get them travelling. My goal is having another impact on the world around me, I am now donating money to charity as well.
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