Stuka
May 18th
Stuka
Image by AN HONORABLE GERMAN
An Honorable German: A World War Two novel by Charles McCain. The above is a photo of the greatly feared German dive bomber, the Stuka. It was amazingly accurate but very slow—about 230 mph. The fixed undercarriage reduced speed and maneuverability and the aircraft was obsolete by the time World War Two broke out. The Stuka pilots were wildly overconfident after their outstanding performance in Poland and France. However, when they began the daylight bombing of Great Britain in mid-August 1940, RAF Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes knocked them out of the sky. They were all transferred to the east for the invasion of the Soviet Union and spent the rest of the war there primarily working in an anti-tank role. The Stuka had an air siren on each wheel which made a frightening noise when they went into a dive. That classic sound you hear in the movies of planes diving or even appearing is actually the noise made by the Stuka.
National Raise-a-Reader Day
May 17th
National Raise-a-Reader Day
Image by BC Gov Photos
Education Minister George Abbott helps support young readers on Raise-a-Reader day in downtown Vancouver.
Literacy skills are a necessary part of achieving a healthy, successful future, and it’s through school and community-based literacy initiatives that children and families in B.C. can learn these vital skills.
Ballot boxes – BookExpo 2006
May 17th
Ballot boxes – BookExpo 2006
Image by clarissa~
Ballot boxes for Literacy and Justice for All campaign. They will be placed around the exhibition areas starting Friday. You can also vote on the First Book Blog.
Pamela Vander Zwan 3
May 17th
Pamela Vander Zwan 3
Image by On The Issues Magazine
art by Pamela Vander Zwan
from
"Media Literacy: Piercing Content and Who Controls It"
by Jennifer L. Pozner
www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/2010spring/2010spring_Pozner.php
Book of Salt
May 16th
Book of Salt
Image by RedJinn: World Peace: What are you doing about it?
A magnificent, award winning, first novel by Monique Truong, Vietnamese born, American author.
Set in the Paris of the Post WWI "Lost Generation" Paris, it tells the story of a Vietnamese male (Binh), cook for Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas. Truong , "…uses the novel to explore the themes of sexuality, diaspora, race, national identity…" (Wikiedia).
READ IT! *****
