Collective Blogging on 6 March 2008 for World Book Day UK
Scott Keir
Wednesday, 05 March 2008 14:18 UTC
A bit last minute, but Thursday 6 March 2008 is World Book Day – in the UK at least, the rest of the world has it on 23 April (this split happened years ago as usually UK schools are on holiday on 23 April for Easter).
Inspired by the 14 February blogathon, would anyone be up for blogging about books and science tomorrow? Maybe even about science books? What’s your favourite, what most inspires you, what’s the science book you wish you’d written (or had never been written)?
I am the manager of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, but I mainly blog and read science books for fun, and thought others might like to too?
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I’ve just written about the science books that (may) have changed my life to kick things off.
And as it seemed like an idea to run with, I’ve wangled a few books to give away to 5 bloggers who write about science books today. Not including me, obviously… :)
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I’m also celebrating on my blog with a books giveaway exclusive to Nature Network readers. These are books of mine in foreign languages. Well it is World book day, after all.
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Great idea, Scott. My contribution isn’t directly about science books, but I hope is in the right spirit!
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I’ve posted about this on Nautilus, Scott, in the hope of spreading the word a bit. Great idea. Have you seen the £1 books this year? Not a science book among them. Quite a sad collection really, compared with previous years, though one of my daughters likes the Robert Muchamore CHERUB books. However, you would think that the publishing industry could have come up with some better selections than those on offer.
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Henry, I love your idea! If only I could read Italian or Spanish. I would comment on your blog to compliment you on this, but don’t want to take one of the five places.
Amd thanks to you all for not thinking it is a mad idea!
Have you seen the £1 books1 this year? Not a science book among them.
A couple of years ago I spotted that there hadn’t been a science book in the list – and had a conversation with Nick Arnold about that and whether I could do anything to encourage that. He pointed out, in typical enthusiastic fashion, that there hadn’t been a non-fiction book on the list, to his knowledge. The next year, one of the £1 books was “Horrible Science: The Seriously Squishy Science Book”. May be coincidence, but I was really pleased to see it there.
I am planning to have a browse of them – and though I’m not exactly in the target audience of the reluctant child reader, I am sorely tempted by “Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets”…
1 The £1 books are specially produced to encourage kids to try a book – every school child in the UK gets a £1 book token, which they can spend as they like.
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And I guess the next place I’d like science books to appear is in Quick Reads – which are short and snappy books specifically written and published as an aid and encouragement for adults who struggle with reading.
Even if you’re a voracious reader, there’s some great books there to devour.
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Have just posted!
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My contribution is about books and experiments, but not your usual science book.
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They are all great! I love how we can take an idea and spin off in different directions.
Feel free to enter the competition – you may just win. =cough=
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Guess I should have pasted a link to my post yesterday. Ah well, here it is. It was nice to see all the other posts! Great idea!
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