As part of the third anniversary celebration of the blog Saffron Tree, a week-long festival to encourage the reading of culturally unique stories has been planned and is now underway. This is day 3 of the festival (I wish we had  known about it sooner!), whose theme is “Around the World in 7 days,” and so far they have been to North and South America and to Africa. In their own words, here’s what they have in store this week for book lovers of all ages: “an avalanche of reviews of wonderful books focusing on folktales, immigrant tales, modern tales; a crossword contest; and some interesting author interviews. This is all in the spirit of the blog to promote reading to children, and more so, the reading of culturally diverse books.”

Head on straight over to Saffron Tree to enjoy their wonderful offerings and to make offerings of your own! Wouldn’t you say it’s always better to share the fruits of one’s literary discoveries with other book lovers than to keep them all to one’s self?

And just a reminder: here at PaperTigers we are still going around the world in 100 bookshelves… and we want to receive your bookshelf pictures and stories, so please keep them coming!

Posted by: Aline | This entry was posted on Sunday, October 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pm and is filed under Eventful World, Reading the World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Tags: Around the World in 7 Days, CROCUS Book Festival, culturally unique stories for children, Saffron Tree