SlogansReading, books and library slogans
World Book Day is observed on 23 April. These slogans are for library walls, reading corners, book fairs and any campaign that tries to pull a child from a screen to a page.
English
Open a book. Go somewhere.
Ten pages before bed, a hundred worlds a year.
A library card is a ticket to everywhere.
Return it on time. Someone is waiting for the ending.
Bookmarks, not folded corners.
Lost in a book is the best kind of lost.
The book was better. It usually is.
One more chapter is always a good idea.
Whisper. The books are talking.
Borrow a book. Return a better reader.
Stories do not need charging.
Read what you love until you love to read.
हिन्दी
किताब खोलो, दुनिया घूमो।
सोने से पहले दस पन्ने, साल भर में सौ दुनिया।
पुस्तकालय का कार्ड, हर जगह का टिकट।
समय पर लौटाओ, कोई कहानी का अंत जानने को बैठा है।
पन्ना मत मोड़ो, बुकमार्क लगाओ।
किताबें चार्ज नहीं माँगतीं।
किताब वह दोस्त है जो कभी व्यस्त नहीं होता।
जो पसंद हो वही पढ़ो, पर रोज़ पढ़ो।
कहानी में खो जाओ, फ़ोन को सो जाने दो।
आज लाइब्रेरी चलो, एक नया दोस्त घर लाओ।
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Where these slogans are used
School libraries and class reading corners, library week and book week displays, book fairs, bookmarks made in art class, and the notice above the shelf where returned books go. A bookmark is the best place of all. It travels home inside the book and is read every time the book is opened.
Write your own
Do not tell children that reading is good for them. They have been told. Tell them what is inside: a dragon, a detective, a joke, a place they have never been, a friend who feels the way they do. The slogans that work make a book sound like an adventure or a secret, not like homework. For older students, lines about reading for ten minutes before sleep, in place of the phone, are honest and useful.
- English pairs: read and lead, book and look, page and stage, shelf and self, story and glory.
- Hindi pairs: किताब and ख़्वाब, पन्ना and तमन्ना, पढ़ो and बढ़ो, कहानी and पुरानी, पुस्तक and दस्तक.
Library manners, as slogans
- "Return it on time. Someone is waiting for the ending."
- "Bookmarks, not folded corners."
- "Whisper. The books are talking."
- "Clean hands, happy pages."
Ideas for a reading campaign
- A "what I am reading" board with one line from each student.
- Ten minutes of silent reading for the whole school, teachers included.
- A book exchange table: bring one, take one.
- Reading in every language. A child reading a Punjabi or Hindi story book is reading.
What to avoid
- Shaming slow readers, or children who prefer comics. Comics are reading too.
- Running down phones and television too harshly. Invite, do not scold.
Using these slogans
- Print the slogan on a strip of chart paper, and you have a bookmark.
Questions
When is World Book Day?
On 23 April every year.