World Literacy Day Gifts

Newspaper headline: Illiteracy at all-time high; Paper boy: 'Read all about it!'

Gorillas Learn to Read.

Hate Platforms

Lynching on social media

"Can I borrow the car keys?"

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"You're going to hate yourself."

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

First Novels.

'Let's go to our education reporter for more underreporting of school success stories.'

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

J. R. R. Tolkien

"I give up. Where's the power button?"

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Novel

I.T. Fear

"The moral of the story, honey, is that being a celebrity does not make you a credible children’s book author."

"Because he's illiterate. That's why I have to read to him all the time."

Isabel Allende

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

"Barb's such a fast reader."

To read or not to read?

'What does it say, Dad?'

"No, son, you’re not ‘M for Mature.’"

It was the best of times, it was the wasrtn blanfil trmsl... It was the bnarfy foodel pook. Arghh! Darn reader's block.

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

'It was a play on words...and a bad one at that!'

'Have you got the book 'After the end of the world'?'

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

'The Lemming Book Store'