Want exclusive content, like free chapters, news, and sweepstakes? Register for the newsletter here! Stop what you're doing! Don't you know that this book does NOT want to be read? Not now and not ever. Det var en lärare som ville att jag skulle köpa in Boken som inte ville bli läst. Jag hade inte hört talas om den, men den är skriven av komikern David Sundin och ska med andra ord vara rolig. Den ÄR rolig! Om rätt person läser den här boken högt för sina barn kommer det kanske att vara den roligaste boken någonsin. Boken som inte ville bli läst påminner om bilderboken Hjälp! Boken åt upp min hund. Det är alltså meningen att högläsaren ska interagera med boken till lyssnaren/barnets förtjusning. För boken krymper bokstäverna och gör dem sen för stora. Försöker bränna upp sig och mixa om bokstäverna allt för att inte bli läst. New Delhi G-20 summit | How Prime Minister Modi turned an annual diplomatic event into a grand political spectacle

Because if this book is read all kinds of strange and magical things might happen. Silly things and secret things... Alligators might appear, the book might try to fly away, and before you know it you'll be having all kinds of unexpected fun. How AWFUL. Banned and Censored: What the British Raj Didn’t Want Us to Read ; Selected and Introduced by Devika Sethi, Roli Books, ₹1,295. Sethi, who teaches Modern Indian History at IIT Mandi’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences, notes that the collection of texts is “united by their patriotic sentiments, their sense of mission and by the fact of their all being banned”. Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments. The bestselling Swedish children's book of 2020, translated by B. J. Woodstein, with graphic design by Alexis HolmqvistThere are other reasons that Beatty stated for burning books; one is because people simply stopped reading them at all out of laziness. Books got condensed and shortened so people could "read" them faster; pretty soon, they just disappeared because people didn't want to make the effort. At some point after citizens willingly gave up the literature in their lives, the government made it illegal to possess books. A few citizens still cling to the scarce copies of books remaining in their society, so firemen are needed to burn those copies when they find them. Even then Beatty suggests that ordinary citizens were in favor of burning books because they found them personally offensive: Originally, it was not the government who forced people to give up literature; ordinary citizens made the choice to do so themselves and without any resistance. They simply decided that literature was no longer valuable and stopped reading: Mildred and her friends are mesmerized by the programs they watch in the television parlor.(http://www.enotes.com/fahrenheit-451/themes) There was no story, just some fun with the idea not telling a story, the red and turquoise colour scheme was nice and I enjoyed some of the vintage etching style illustrations. There was one illustration of a skeleton of conjoined twin children looking at each other, which when used for comedy seemed inappropriate.

Best for older, action-loving kids, this book offers nonstop adventure and terrific exposure to Greek mythology.” The book points out that while Savarkar is a “divisive figure” today, his views, particularly towards the Muslim community, evolved and became rigid later on in his life, compared to his early writings reflected in his book, The First War of Independence (1909). Jawaharlal Nehru (left) and Mahatma Gandhi in conversation at the All-India Congress committee meeting in Bombay. There’s an author’s note in Long Way Down where you recognise that young people, particularly boys, don’t like to read. Then you add: “So here’s what I plan to do: NOT WRITE BORING BOOKS.”

Beatty also stated that their society burned books to try to make everyone equal, so as to make everyone feel better about themselves: Portrait of right-wing ideologue Veer Savarkar on his 133 birth anniversary, at Central Hall of Parliament House, New Delhi. This wild romp of a book will intrigue and amuse middle schoolers, whether they know the Greek myths or not. ” – Elisabeth Greenberg, Children Banned in the Hunan province of China in the 1930s for portraying animals as acting on the same level as humans.