Book Lovers Day
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When Celebrated
First Saturday in November and/or August 9th
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About the Holiday
Book Lovers Day is a holiday for all book lovers and reading. Reading is a great relaxing hobby and also an important one. Reading can also be informative and educational. Grab a book and find a nice relaxing quiet spot to read. Or, use this holiday as your motivation to start a neighborhood book club.
- Children who read the most, read the best regardless of their social level.
- Fifeteen yearold students whose parents read to them often in their first year of school show markedly higher PISA scores.
- Children learn an average of 4-12 thousand new words each year through reading.
- Early books didn't have titles, authors or anything printed on the cover.
- Books used to be shelved backwards with the spine in back and that pages toward the front.
- The first ebook was patented in Spain by teacher Angela Ruiz in 1949 to decrease the number of books her students had to carry.
- One tree can produce about 50 books.
- On average in the US, 57 books are purchased per second.
- It took Noah Webster 36 years to write his first dictionary.
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References
- ↑ Karon Graham ~ Edutake: Did You Know? Facts about Reading
- ↑ Earthly Pursuits: Old Books -- Did you know?
- ↑ BOGDAN FIEDUR: Did you know? 5 Facts about Ebooks + 1 more
- ↑ Lena Sledge's Blog: Interesting Facts About Authors and Books
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