"International Children `s Book Day" - "Dia Internacional do Livro Infantil"

O "Dia Internacional do Livro Infantil" celebra-se no dia 2 de abril, data do nascimento do escritor dinamarquês, Hans Christian Andersen. Neste data chama-se a atenção para a importância da leitura e para o papel fundamental dos livros para a infância.

Todos os anos é divulgada uma mensagem de incentivo à leitura. Este ano a mensagem do IBBY internacional: "Muitas Culturas Uma Só História" é da responsabilidade dos Emirados Árabes.

 

Many Cultures One Story

 

“We speak many languages and come from different backgrounds, Yet we share the same stories”

International stories... folklore stories

It’s the same story told to us all

In different voices

In different colors

Yet it remains unchanged...

Beginning...

Plot...

And End...

It is the same story we all know & love

We all heard it

In different versions by different voices

Yet it is always the same

There is a hero... a princess... & a villain

No matter their language Their names

Or their faces

It is always the same Beginning,

Plot

And Ending

Always that hero...that princess and that villain

Unchanged through centuries

They keep us company

They whisper to us in our dreams

They lull us to sleep

Their voices long gone

But they live in our hearts forever

For they bring us together in a land of mystery and imagination

So that all different cultures melt into One Story

 

 

written by: Marwa Al Aqroubi 

(versão em inglês)