BUDLEIN CELEBRATES 2021 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK DAY (ICBD)
THEME: MUSIC OF THE WORDS
ICBD is celebrated to
(i) promote a love of reading in young people
(ii) To call attention to children’s books
THE INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK DAY MESSAGE
The music of words
When we read, our minds grow wings.
When we write, our fingers sing.
Words are drumbeats and flutes on the page,
soaring songbirds and trumpeting elephants,
rivers that flow, waterfalls tumbling,
butterflies that twirl
high in the sky!
Words invite us to dance—rhythms, rhymes, heartbeats,
hoofbeats, and wingbeats, old tales and new ones,
fantasies and true ones.
Whether you are cozy at home
or racing across borders toward a new land
and a strange language, stories and poems
belong to you.
When we share words, our voices
become the music of the future,
peace, joy and friendship,
a melody of hope.
Written by Margarita Engle