national ambassador for reading 2012

36
READING A BOOK WILL OPEN UP YOUR WORLD. Bryony Cole National Year of Reading 2012

Upload: bryony-cole

Post on 01-Sep-2014

7.607 views

Category:

Education


2 download

DESCRIPTION

A talk i gave at Lauriston Girls' School on the importance of reading.

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

READING A BOOK WILL OPEN UP YOUR WORLD.

Bryony ColeNational Year of Reading 2012

Page 2: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 3: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 4: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 5: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 6: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

What do they all have in common?

And what do they have to do with reading?

Page 7: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

They are all places I read about.

Before I visited.

Page 8: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

how reading books inspired me to travel

Page 9: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

connected me to amazing people…

Page 10: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

and helped me explore new worlds.

Page 11: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 12: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 13: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 14: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 15: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

A book can take you to new places, Without you ever needing to go.

Page 16: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 17: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 18: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

A book can help you escape new places.

Page 19: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 20: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 21: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 22: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. – carl sagan

Page 23: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

Reading can help you understand new cultures and people

Page 24: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 25: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

Reading you can travel in the paths of those before you.

Page 26: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

Where you will find me at the bookstore

Page 27: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 28: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 29: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

Then all this reading got me a pretty cool job.

Page 30: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 31: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

Travel writing isn’t as glamourous as it looks.

Page 32: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

The internet makes it easy to tell my own story.

Page 33: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 34: National Ambassador for Reading 2012
Page 35: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

humans cannot out-evolve the emotional connection with words on a page- Daniel Wearne

Page 36: National Ambassador for Reading 2012

Reading will open up your world.