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Hey everyone, welcome to my video. This is so exciting. I'm doing a video for all of you.

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And today I'm going to teach all of you about World Book Day, which I think a lot of you know

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about, but we're just going to review it anyway. So World Book Day is a celebration and event

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created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO,

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to promote reading and publishing and copyright.

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It was established in 1995, and it is celebrated every year on April 23rd

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to coincide with the deaths of famous Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes

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and also English author William Shakespeare.

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And so all the United Nations member states from all over the world

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celebrate the day and do so in many different ways.

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and today specifically I'm going to teach you about how we do World Book Day in the United

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States. So let's get started about talking about what what do we do in the United States, like what

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did I do when I was in elementary and secondary school in the United States, mainly elementary

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school. But one thing that we used to have is we have a book fair, which I think you guys have here

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in Spain and Madrid. So basically a book fair is where we would take our school libraries in our

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school and we would turn them into like a small bookstore so there would be uh books games and

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other things related to reading and writing that you could buy um and take home with you to have

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at your house and also a lot of the time we had people come in and read stories and we also had

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like games and all kinds of fun prizes at book fairs so they happened the whole week of world

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book day so they were always super fun and i always loved um in my school i remember in my

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elementary school we had like a certain time throughout the week where your class would go

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for like an hour and a half and just get to have like the whole book fair to yourself and that was

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always the best and I always loved it so if you've never got a chance to go to a book fair um go to

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one especially um they're super fun and you can find out about all these great cool books you

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never knew of before to the book fairs we had um my favorite thing that we did um when I was in

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elementary school to celebrate world book day is we would have what we call a read-a-thon so

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basically a read-a-thon is basically everyone comes to school and everyone would come dressed

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in their pajamas and comfy clothes and they would bring blankets and pillows from home and basically

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we would just read the whole day like that was all we got to do of course we'd get to go out for

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like recess and run around on the playground but when we weren't doing that like we just got to

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read all day in our comfy clothes and our pajamas and just hang out um i always brought like four

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or five books because you read all day like what else are you gonna do so I would just bring a ton

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of books in case I finished one and I could go on to another one um but it was so much fun I loved

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it me and my friends like would wear like matching pajamas and we would like read the same book and

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we would just like get in like a cuddle puddle full of pillows and blankets it was amazing um

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and so also like sometimes our teachers and even some of our classmates like if they were able to

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would bring in snacks and little drinks so we'd have like we'd almost be like reading our books

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and having like high tea in the afternoon it was kind of crazy but it was so much fun um and then

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I know my teacher um would give prizes for like the most books read uh in a day but they had to

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be like certain amount of pages they had to be at like a certain reading level and all that but like

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yeah so we had we had games we had blankets we had comfy clothes we had snacks it was like

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kind of like an all-day party so I mean bring it up with your teachers your English teachers maybe

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and see if you guys can have like a reading day because how fun is that you just read all day

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and get to like hang out with your friends I think it's wonderful so readathons really fun

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my favorite part of world book day for sure in the United States before you have your readathon

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let's do a quick little recap about all the things that you're gonna need to have a successful

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wonderful, fabulous read-a-thon in your school. To have the best and most perfect read-a-thon

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experience, you're going to need some comfy clothes, you're gonna need a blanket, you're

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gonna need a pillow, you're gonna need some books, you're gonna need some snacks, you're gonna need

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a drink and let's not forget have a big old smile on your face because reading is so much fun so

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we've talked about the book fair we've talked about the read-a-thon we talked about what you

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need for your read-a-thon um now i'm just gonna talk about some of the other things that we did

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um i know in one of my classes one year we did a lot of arts and crafts and basically i mean by

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arts and crafts like we made like posters and we wrote these little summaries about our favorite

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books and share them with the class, hoping that on World Book Day and during the read-a-thon that

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they might be inspired and pick up our book that we suggested and read it. So that was something

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we did and it was always super fun. So now you might be asking yourself, but Taylor, like what

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were some of your favorite books to read? And I'm glad you asked that question. It's a great question

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because I'm going to tell you all about them right now. So now let's talk about your teacher

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Taylor's favorite books in school I will tell you right now I'm not a big reader

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but these books for some reason just really captured my attention so when I

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was in primary school and even a part of secondary school my favorite book series

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to read was the series of unfortunate events you guys might know these books

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or have read them and they're very popular they've been translated into 41

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different languages including Spanish the Spanish translation I will put right

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here for you so you can have that. So just a little bit about the series.

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The series has 13 books in total and they're always more than about 200 pages

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in length. So they're a little bit longer but they're still really good books.

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They're my favorite because they're just so full of mystery, adventure, suspense.

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You never know what is gonna happen next in these books. It's just like a

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never-ending, like, winding road that you just can't find the end of. But

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eventually, of course, it comes to an end. But getting there seems like it takes

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forever and it's funny because the book has a passage in the beginning written

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by the author Lemony Snicket and he drops little clues little Easter eggs

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going back to our Easter presentation right little Easter eggs and little

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clues to kind of give you an idea about what's gonna happen in the book but like

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I could never ever figure them out alright so now we've kind of talked

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about the books let's talk more about them in depth so let me give you a quick

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little summary just in case you might be interested in going to read these at some point. So the books

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follow the three Baudelaire children and their unfortunate adventures that basically start when

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their parents die in a fire and they are left as orphans and they're forced to move and stay with

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different distant relatives in each book. So in every book they're with some distant relative

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that they may have never even met before in their life.

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But the most famous of these relatives who appears in every book

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and is actively trying to get rid of the children

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so he can take all their fortune because they're very rich

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is the evil Count Olaf.

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The books, even though they're pretty much written for people

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who are like preteens and teenagers,

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they highlight many aspects of human behavior

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and show the strength and resilience of people

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who decide to put their own faith in their hands

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and to basically lead the life they want to lead.

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So I think that's a really cool message

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to be teaching people, teenagers and preteens,

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because I know a lot of the time,

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I know when I was a teenager,

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I was very insecure.

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I wasn't very sure of myself.

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I was really shy and I just didn't know what to do.

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And so those books were really inspiring

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because as someone who wanted to be

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and continues to want to be really in control of their life

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and being able to make their own decisions,

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I was really inspired by the characters in the book

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who, against all odds,

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would keep succeeding and succeeding and succeeding

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and making it through the hard times.

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So that was really cool.

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Yeah, and they also just,

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they made me feel really good when I was younger.

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They gave me a great escape from reality

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and I could just put my head down into the book

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and just read it and leave the world behind for a while.

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So that was always nice.

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And so for that reason,

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And they have a really special place in my heart. And I think I've read this series at least three or four times through. And so, yeah, they're just my favorite. They're just my favorite. And maybe when I get back to the States, I'll read them again, pick them up and read them again. So why not?

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um and so i hope you um if you feel like this is a cool book um take the opportunity to read it

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um i would definitely say read them in english um but you know if you can't then do it in spanish

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but i definitely recommend english because i know i've seen the book with the spanish translation

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and a lot of like things get missed from the translation so you can read in english um do it

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i know as you get further along in school like it'll become easier um you'll learn more english

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So reading the books won't be that difficult. So I say when you get up to like four days

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So try it out read it and then you can tell me how you like it

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so yeah, but

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That's that's kind of it. So you guys for watching this video

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I know it's kind of long but I hope you enjoy seeing me because I feel like I haven't seen you in forever and I miss

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You and I can't wait to hear about your favorite books that you're gonna put on the padlet board

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So I'm excited for that

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But just keep up the hard work everyone and I hopefully hopefully we'll see you soon. But until then bye