BOOK WEEK TALK

I GAVE a talk to students in a school during the National Book Week (August 9) ... This is something I wrote for them ... 

MAKE BOOKS YOUR CONSTANT FRIENDS
Make books your constant friends.
Read them when you are in the library.
Read them when you are finished with given work in class.
Read them at lunch time when you are not playing.
Read them at home, when you are done with the chores.
Read them when you have completed your studies.
Read them when you find it hard to go to sleep ... let them be your lullaby instead of calling mother to come and sing you a song every time.
Read them when you go to high school and secondary school.
Read them when you go to college or university.
Read them if you cannot make it to university.
Read them when you work.
Read them when you do not have work.
Read them when you have a boyfriend or girlfriend.
Read them if you do not have any boyfriend or girlfriend – make books your friends.
Read them when you are married. Read them if you remain single.
Read them when you are happy. Read them when you are sad or lonely. 
Read them to your children when they grow up. Show them the importance of books when they are as young as you are now so that they will do better than you as they go on in life.
Read them when you have grandchildren. Read it to those small ones too so they become better than their parents.
Students read books as long as you live.
With that I say: Happy 2013 National Book Week Twinky Winky International School.

Picture: Front gate of Twinky Winky International School in Port Moresby.