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totallyhussein-blog · 10 months

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Winnie the Pooh is inspiring Manchester’s kids to read

It's great news from Wood Street Mission and the Books Forever Appeal! Over 8,000 children's books have been donated so far and amongst them are the stories of Winnipeg the Bear -aka the real life Winnie The Pooh- and the Canadian veterinarian Harry D. Colebourn.

I'm positive that books like these will inspire Manchester's young people to read and with more WSM Book Roadshows planned in our city's schools, Wood Street Mission are still in need of brand new or good condition pre-loved books for children and young people.

In 2022, WSM distributed over 20,500 books to disadvantaged young people across Manchester and thanks to support from the public, it's brilliant that each child gets to take home 5 books to keep. Through such acts of kindness, you are helping to overcome barriers that children in low-income families face.

But did you know that donating to Wood Street Mission’s 'Books Forever Appeal’ couldn’t be easier? You can drop off a book in person or have it delivered direct to the Wood Street Mission, 26 Wood Street, Manchester, M3 3EF, The UK.

Wood Street Mission is located next to the John Rylands Library on Deansgate. You can also visit woodstreetmission.org.uk for more information or to make a secure online donation.

#wood street mission #childrens books #manchester #uk news #winnie the pooh #lindsay mattick #sophie blackall #books #waterstones #west didsbury #chorlton #bbc news #bbc radio #bbc radio 4 #hussein al-alak #books forever appeal #books forever #ww1 education #education

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wearepeace · 2 months

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain

#Books Forever Appeal #books forever #manchester #photography #media #uk #london #chorlton #mark twain

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reallybadblackoutpoems · 2 months

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secrets of farming (1863) - john w. large

"yeowch augh taking damage ough eurgh"

#sorry i havent been super active #have been dealing w personal and health issues etc #leave some good horror movies down below #or video essays #either one #we just closed the seagull #will forever be abnormal about that show #anyway!#blackout poem #blackout poetry #author #book #poetry

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blondie-drawings · 5 months

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can't stop thinking about those skeleton lesbians (pt 1)

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darcyolsson · 1 year

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look i dislike the corporate artstyle book cover trend as much as the next person but we cant pretend every book looking the same is something new. if you stepped into a bookstore in 2013 there would be approximately 57 books whose cover art consisted of a girl in a ballgown with her back half-turned to the camera photoshopped into a vaguely fantasy-like landscape. i was 11 years old fighting for my life to find the right maximalistic girl and her single-adjective book title we cannot forget the horrors i went through please be respectful of my experiences

#and after that every book had a logo on it and a title like an x of y and z #and now its minimalism and titles like the hating kiss game #publishing trends are forever....#personal

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happyheidi · 7 months

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2wo-knav3s · 1 year

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#Libby app my beloved #public library supremacy forever #Got a book today that was one of those ‘we actually don’t even have that as an ebook’ indefinite holds #but I guess they got a new copy and SEE this is why placing that hold is worth it anyway #db

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egophiliac · 10 months

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oh, uh, this...this isn't Silver's backstory after all.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #surprise! it's actually everyone else's backstory!#screaming. just screaming forever.#malenoa my new beloved #like. i kind of figured something had happened to malleus' parents because maleficia seems to be his only relative?#but i didn't know it was going to be a whole THING #hey silver did your shitbag ancestor kill malleus' mom #oh boy this is going to be super embarrassing for you #also i keep interpreting レヴァーン as raven and i kind of think that's not the intended meaning #it's probably supposed to be like. lavern or something?#however #it means i keep thinking of malleus' dad as raven. his cool raven dad who mysteriously disappeared 400 years ago. that guy. raven.#and slowly sliding my eyes towards the explicitly raven-themed character who literally has 'raven' written on his design #do you...do you think that...#it couldn't be. but do you think...#i swear to god if crowley takes off his mask and goes 'SON' i'm gonna #i don't even know what i'd do but crowley darth vader-ing malleus would be the twist of the fucking century #truly the funniest possible outcome. i kind of do actually want it to be true now #sorry mal turns your dad is an enormous dork and also the principal #bright side no one is going to be intimidated by you anymore

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thenotoriousscuttlecliff · 2 months

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Since Avatar The Last Airbender got remade in live action so it could be more like Game of Thrones, they should remake Game of Thrones in animation so it can be more like Avatar The Last Airbender.

#avatar the last airbender #atla #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #avatar #the last airbender #netflix avatar #do thrones as an anime with nothing but filler until grrm finish the books #so about forever

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qqchurch · 3 months

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#qq posts #twitter things #im fucked up because himmel forever not getting any is a good thing in my books 👍#its not gonna stop fanworks just like the uma musume thing but itll clamp down on monetized ones iirc

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arataka-reigen · 5 months

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"Percy takes Annabeth's last name" "Annabeth takes Percy's last name" Actually, Percy and Annabeth never get married as a way to piss off Hera

#of course they'll be together forever. no they will not partake in the institution called marriage because hera is a horrible goddess #and we hate her <3 #riordanverse #pjo #percabeth #annabeth chase #percy jackson #hera pjo #gi talks #gi talks books #1 #1k #b

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totallyhussein-blog · 11 months

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Anne Franks legacy inspires Manchester book appeal

Have you ever read Anne Franks diary? Thanks to Maurice from West Didsbury, we’ve been back to the Wood Street Mission in Manchester, with copies of Anne Frank’s diary, which Maurice kindly donated to the ’Books Forever Appeal’.

Anne Frank was born in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929. On her thirteenth birthday, just before Anne’s family went into hiding in NAZI occupied Amsterdam, Anne Frank was presented with a diary.

During the two years in hiding, Anne wrote about events in the Secret Annex, but also shared her thoughts and feelings. Writing also helped Anne document her experiences, of being a young Jewish woman in hiding from Hitler’s Third Reich.

Anne Frank had planned to publish a book about her time in the Secret Annex. After World War Two ended, her father Otto Frank fulfilled her wish and since then, Anne Frank’s diary has been translated into more than 70 languages.

Here in Manchester, at the St Johns Garden in the city centre, the Anne Frank tree was planted on June 12th 1998. The tree serves as a lasting memorial to Anne Frank and all children killed in wars and conflicts since WW2.

In 2013, a rose dedicated to Anne Frank was also planted at the Manchester Jewish Museum, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The rose planted had been grafted from one made in the year of Anne’s birth in 1929, and another from the year of her death in 1945.

What also makes this donation from Maurice meaningful, is that the city of Manchester is home to some of the children and grandchildren of those British soldiers, who as liberators of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, bore witness to where Anne Frank lost her life.

Anne Frank wrote in her diary; “where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” Anne also wrote; “how lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world.”

For more information, please visit WoodStreetMission.org.uk or to donate new books for children aged 0-16 years, please send them to Wood Street Mission, 26 Wood Street, Manchester, M3 3EF, The UK.