World Book Day

Every year the first Thursday in March is

celebrated as World Book Day!

Overbooked
By Lori Preusch

I'm a strange contradiction; I'm new and I'm old,

I'm often in tatters, and oft deck'd in gold:

Though I never could read, yet letter'd I'm found;

Though blind, I enlighten; though loose, I am bound-

I'm always in black, and I'm always in white;

I am grave and I'm gay, I am heavy and light.

In form too I differ-I'm thick and I'm thin,

I've no flesh, and no bones, yet I'm cover'd with skin;

An illustration by NC Wyeth

I've more points than a compass, more stops than a flute-

I sing without voice, without speaking confute;

I'm English, I'm German, I'm French, and I'm Dutch;

Some love me too fondly; some slight me too much;

I often die soon, though sometimes live ages,

And no monarch alive has so many pages.

One Thousand Stories High

Lori Preusch

Take some time to read today!

"A Book"

A poem by Hannah More