A team of 23 worked to digitize and preserve historical documents such as photographs, maps and letters. Book Bunk has now digitized 40, items, including glass plate negatives from the colonial era. It will begin collecting oral histories and community photographs to balance out the archives. Due to its historical significance, Book Bunk will work closely with the government and museums to renovate the McMillan Memorial Library. Get rid of all of the portraits of McMillan.
Get rid of the books that call us barbarians and the books that treat us like we're nothing more than anthropological beings,'" Koinange says. We can't get rid of it. The McMillan renovation is a large undertaking, but the team says they won't stop there. Book Bunk, founded in by publisher Angela Wachuka and author Wanjiru Koinange, is a non-profit organization working to restore libraries across the city by updating everything from the physical infrastructure to the book collections.
The team has also helped transform the libraries into spaces for events that encourage thought and celebrate writing, including hosting the Nairobi Literature Festival. The formerly dilapidated buildings are haunted by the ghosts of a not-so-distant past. Kenya, which had been under British rule since , was named an official colony in and remained that way for more than 40 years. Built in , only White European colonizers were allowed to enter the space for the next three decades,.
Read More. Even the name of the library recalls its history. Past the lions guarding the front entrance placed there in reference to McMillan's fascination with lions , the books within the library also serve as striking reminders of the times.
Updating a colonial collection. In , Book Bunk established a partnership with Nairobi's local government that allows the team to lead restoration efforts in the city's libraries. Book Bunk, which relies on donors and partnerships to fund its projects, has a dedicated staff of paid and volunteer workers. I have tried to restrict the vocabularies used in this book to HSK 1 as far as possible. Where it is not possible, I have introduced limited new words in the story.
You may also download the audio files for free with the link and password provided on the last page of the book. Lastly, I am sorry to disappoint those who enjoy reading a book with pictures because this book has no picture, only words. The structure of this book is as follows: -Story - this section is the story in Simplified Chinese without pinyin and the English translation. To test level of reading skills, you should attempt to read this section first before going to the next.
It will set out new words along with pinyin and explanation. The new words set out here are not cumulative. The stories in this book are individual stories. A reader may choose to read this book in any particular order. To help you decide which story to read first, you may take a look at the statistics before you begin.
The difficulty level for each story varies. For the e-book version, I have also enabled text to speech function for this book. At the time of writing, Kindle text to speech does not support Chinese characters, however you may install free software available for your browser or mobile phone or tablet or Google text to speech on your android gadget. It will enable the book to read out loud, and you can listen to the pronunciation of the words. You may also download the audio files for free with the link and password provided on the last page.
That is why we chose to take the time to collect the best free titles, which can provide fruitful and didactic entertainment to our little ones. It is well known that reading constitutes one of the best habits that human beings can acquire.
It is an activity that brings great and diverse benefits with short, medium and long term repercussions. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that children begin to be interested in books and their content from the very moment they become conscious.
The idea that children should be interested in books even before they learn to speak and read is one of the most recurrent pieces of advice from experts.
With the idea of supporting this recommendation, the specialists have designed books with images and sounds that can attract the attention and awaken the curiosity of the little ones. It is a very effective way to initiate the advantageous ability to read.
And if this is not enough, we have included books in Spanish and Portuguese in case you are interested in having them practice a new language.
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