Discover Magic - Read!
Finally! Our big wall visuals have gone up and they look awesome! For the front window, we chose a fantastically atmospheric poster from the American Library Association with Gandalf and a huge tome of some ancient book of wisdom in front of him. On the poster are the words: Discover Magic - Read. That sums up our philosophy completely - reading and the written word really do have the power to work magic in our lives. As Walt Disney once said, "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." Yo, ho, ho to that!
Our storytelling corner features a picture of a dragon wending his way up to a castle perched on top of a mountain. It is taken from a richly illustrated book called "The Kiss That Missed" by David Melling. We think it provides the kind of atmosphere children tend to lose themselves in when they read stories of brave knights and gutsy heroines, dragons and unicorns and flying horses. We all need to escape once in a while into the place of our imaginations and try out roles where we can be the epitomes of courage as we set out on quests and defeat whatever is threatening our world and all that is good.
Behind our counter is a picture by one of my favourite illustrators - Jane Ray. It is a picture of the tree of life - an important symbol in many cultures. For me, it symbolises the unity and beauty of creation and is in fact taken from a book called "The Story of Creation", one of her many books that have won awards for illustration. In a way it is even symbolic of what sustains us spiritually and keeps us connected with the true meaning and purpose of our lives.
Books can help us understand what that purpose is and how we might live our lives. On our journey through life there is always a time and a place for the written and spoken word: lullabies soothe babies to sleep, verses and rhymes satisfy our need for rhythm and cadence and word play, stories draw us into new and imagined worlds away from and yet reflective of our daily dramas, great literary works inspire and uplift us, and so the list goes on.
Come and discover some of the magic for yourself and for your children - there be plenty of treasure for everyone in Bookaburra, me hearties!
Our storytelling corner features a picture of a dragon wending his way up to a castle perched on top of a mountain. It is taken from a richly illustrated book called "The Kiss That Missed" by David Melling. We think it provides the kind of atmosphere children tend to lose themselves in when they read stories of brave knights and gutsy heroines, dragons and unicorns and flying horses. We all need to escape once in a while into the place of our imaginations and try out roles where we can be the epitomes of courage as we set out on quests and defeat whatever is threatening our world and all that is good.
Behind our counter is a picture by one of my favourite illustrators - Jane Ray. It is a picture of the tree of life - an important symbol in many cultures. For me, it symbolises the unity and beauty of creation and is in fact taken from a book called "The Story of Creation", one of her many books that have won awards for illustration. In a way it is even symbolic of what sustains us spiritually and keeps us connected with the true meaning and purpose of our lives.
Books can help us understand what that purpose is and how we might live our lives. On our journey through life there is always a time and a place for the written and spoken word: lullabies soothe babies to sleep, verses and rhymes satisfy our need for rhythm and cadence and word play, stories draw us into new and imagined worlds away from and yet reflective of our daily dramas, great literary works inspire and uplift us, and so the list goes on.
Come and discover some of the magic for yourself and for your children - there be plenty of treasure for everyone in Bookaburra, me hearties!
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