World Book Day

It's World Book Day today so here are a few titles from the groaning shelves. There's one book here without words & it was a fantastic resource for creative writing in my teaching days. Putting words to pictures was great fun. Although I've sold out to Kindle for some reads, particularly fiction, there's something satisfying about the look and feel of a book, particularly ones with strong graphic content.

Apparently ....

People in India are the world's biggest readers, spending an average 10.7 hours a week reading.
The first novel written on a typewriter is said to be Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The M6 toll road was built on two-and-a-half million copies of pulped Mills & Boon novels.
Around 150,000 new books are published in the UK each year.
The smallest book in the Welsh National Library is Old King Cole. It measures 1mm x 1mm and the pages can only be turned with a needle.
The Norwegian translation of the Mr Men book Mr Bump is called Herr Dumpidump.
Around £2.2 billion is spent on books in the UK each year. A fifth of this is spent on children’s books.
Viv Bird, chief executive of Booktrust, conducted research into reading habits. The conclusions of the research were ".... frequent readers are more likely to be satisfied with life, happier and more successful in their professional lives."