Litrasaurus Quest

Privately funded endeavour to encourage imagination, creativity, and empathy in young, and young at heart, through reading, writing, and sharing stories & poems

[Litrasaurus Quest @LitraQuest]

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Litrasaurus loves books ❤️

📖#Reading #Writing ✍️
#Stories 📚#Poems

Developing #Imagination & #Empathy

#Read #Write #Share
#Children #Parents #Teachers #Schools

#WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2023

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#BoTD

H P Lovecraft

Prolific correspondent

Master of #weird & #cosmic #horror #fiction

Only fully appreciated after his death
Never had a book published in his lifetime
Now ~200 IMDB writing credits and many published volumes of #stories

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#BoTD

Ogden Nash

Widely known, appreciated and imitated, American creator of light verse

Originally wrote serious poetry, however his own judgement was that he had better “laugh at myself before anyone laughed at me”

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#Read #Write #Share

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#BoTD

'Lawrence of Arabia'

Complex and troubled individual

Archaeological scholar, historian, translator and interpreter, inspired and inspiring military commander, prolific correspondent, essayist and epic author

Doubtless today he would have used #SocialMedia

#LITRASAURUS

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#BoTD

John Galsworthy

Author & Playwright

Nobel laureate for "his distinguished art of narration"

Best known for #ForsyteSaga

#Poetry is a refuge and solace for so many

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#Dream #Read #Write #Share #Poems

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#BookNook #BoTD

Robert Southey

#Romantic

One of the #LakePoets

Writer of prose and poetry

Perhaps the most versatile and prolific of his age

Man of encyclopaedic interests
#Scholar #Essayist #Historian #Biographer #Translator #PoetLaureate

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#BoTD

Enid Blyton

Prolific and popular author of stories, poems, plays and educational books for children

In the top 10 all-time bestseller lists

Her books have also been regularly banned including by the BBC for thirty years

#Classic #ChildrensBooks

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#BornOnThisDay 1792

Percy Bysshe Shelley

One of the finest poets in the English language

It is so important to develop #empathy and #imagination in the young

We do by sharing #children's #poems and #stories
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#Shelley #Poetry #Romanticism

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#BoTD

P D James

"Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.”

#Read #Write #Share

Reading develops children's writing skills
also their imagination and empathy

#AmReading #AmWriting

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#BoTD

James Baldwin

By the age of 14 Baldwin was spending much of his time in libraries and had found his passion for writing

An eloquent and passionate writer of essays, novels, books, poems and plays

Deeply perceptive observer of contemporary American society

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#HappyBirthday

J K Rowling

Bookworm & Storyteller

Wrote her first book aged 7

We do not need our children to learn magic

We just need to develop their imaginations

#Reading #Writing & #Sharing #Stories
develops #Imagination & #Empathy

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#HappyBirthday

Kate Bush

English singer-songwriter and record producer

Hugely successful and influential artist

Born on the same day as Emily Brontë author of 'Wuthering Heights'

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#Heathcliff #Cathy #Yorkshire #KateBush #EmilyBronte

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Summer Moonlight'
by
Emily Jane Brontë

#BoTD 1818

Poet and novelist

Best known for her only novel #WutheringHeights

"Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone"

Share your children's stories and poems free at
https://t.co/9nYffr2Cu5

#LITRASAURUS

[Litrasaurus Quest @LitraQuest]

#BoTD

Beatrix Potter
Writer, illustrator, natural scientist
and conservationist

After “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” was rejected by six publishers she defiantly published her own edition of the story

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#Read #Write #Share #Children #Stories

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[Litrasaurus Quest @LitraQuest]

#BoTD 1856

George Bernard Shaw

Nobel Prize winning Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist

Imagination is essential for all our futures

We need to develop and encourage it in the young

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Aldous Huxley

Writer Philosopher Satirist

"The proper study of mankind is books"

Reading does so much more than entertain
it informs
it inspires
... it also develops imagination & empathy !

#Read #Write & #Share #Children's #stories

at https://t.co/9nYffr2Cu5

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[Litrasaurus Quest @LitraQuest]

#BoTD

Hemingway

Nobel laureate with an economical and understated style which he termed 'The Iceberg Theory'
#Hemingway

The more you read, and the more you write, the more you learn and the better you get at writing
#AmReading
#AmWriting

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#HappyBirthday Lucia Graves

#Translator, author, editor and pop lyricist

These "Angels of Babel", such an essential but oft overlooked part of literature, unlock for us the treasure that is the message and meaning of these foreign stories

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#BoTD

Sir Edmund Hillary - mountaineer, apiarist and diplomat

With Sherpa Tenzing Norgay achieved the first ascent of Mount Everest

Went on to serve as New Zealand’s high commissioner to India, Nepal and Bangladesh

#Inspiration #Empathy

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#BoTD

Isaac Watts

Godfather of English hymnody
Credited with writing ~750 hymns
Also an inspiring preacher

Wrote text books on geography, astronomy, grammar and philosophy widely used in C18th as well as innovative works on logic

Buried in #Bunhill Fields

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[Litrasaurus Quest @LitraQuest]

Litrasaurus wishes

Her Majesty The Queen

A Very Happy Birthday !

#Reading #Writing and #Sharing #Stories
helps develop #Imagination and #Empathy
in #Children

#LITRASAURUS

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