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WAN-IFRA gives newspapers serial stories so they can help families celebrate reading THINKING AHEAD TO 2011: We're already looking for an idea for a serialized story to launch on International Literacy Day 2011. If you have an idea or know an author who might like to donate a story, do write us. The Legend of the Pony's Tears - An Overview >> NOTE: Materials will be online by the end of July. If you need them before then, please contact Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA Executive Director of Young Readership Development at aralynn.mcmane@wan-ifra.org. Written by award-winning author, Mary Maden, and illustrated by Vicki Wallace, the serial story has 12 chapters. The little pony is freed from the river's grasp and manages to drag himself ashore. Little Wolf discovers the injured, frightened pony and helps him. The pony returns the favor by saving Little Wolf from a cougar. From that day on, the pony and the boy are brothers.To show his trust in Little Wolf, the pony lets the boy ride him. The boy and the pony spend their days riding far up into the beautiful mountains Then one day, tragedy strikes. Little Wolf does not come to see his friend. The pony searches for the boy only to find out that soldiers have taken Little Wolf away. The soldiers moved Little Wolf and his people west, far from their mountain home. The trail to the west is hard and many of Little Wolf's people die--including Little Wolf's mother. After his mother's death, Little Wolf decides to go back to his beloved mountains and his brother, the pony. Little Wolf is injured when he runs away. Despite his injury, the boy keeps running toward his home. With his last ounce of strength, the boy is finally in sight of his home. Too weak to go on, Little Wolf manages to whistle for the pony--then collapses. The pony hears Little Wolf's weak whistle and realizes that his friend is dying. Then the pony does something no pony has even done before or since--the pony cries! With the help of the forces of nature, the pony's tears are made into rain. The rain reaches Little Wolf, reviving him. The boy then follows a magical rainbow where the pony awaits. Little Wolf jumps on the pony's back and they ride away. It is said, that even today, far up in the Great Mountains, you can still hear the hoof beats of a little pony and the laughter of an Indian boy. STORY SPECIFICS
Of creatures and biodiversity - from Sardine Features
The United Nations has declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity to celebrate the variety of life on earth while underscoring the important role that biodiversity plays in all of our lives. A story about each with one photograph for each segment will be available free for publication.
To obtain story and for further information please contact: sardinefeatures@wanadoo.fr/ +33 1 43 36 52 64. UNESCO awards Literacy Prizes, including award to women's rural newspaper  UNESCO awarded its International Literacy Prizes for 2009 with laureates including an Indian newspaper produced by women in a rural community.Details about the prizes HERE UNESCO made "The Power of Literacy" this year's theme for International Literacy Day, and actions will include a lecture at UNSECO headquarters by Dr. Lalage Bown, who spent more than 30 years working in adult Education at universities in Zambia and Nigeria. For more information about WAN's other young readership efforts, please click HERE |
warmth, and great characters.
The Legend of the Pony's Tears is the story of a Native American boy named Little Wolf and his friendship with an Indian pony that cannot be tamed. With the help of a grizzled old packhorse, the rogue pony jumps the fence in the horse corral and escapes into the Great Mountains to hide.From then on, the drama increases as the pony narrowly escapes drowning in a swift stream. 
We take your readers on a journey to discover creatures of the mountain forests.|
International Literacy Day  International Literacy Day was established in 1965 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and is celebrated around the world each year on September 8. But there is still a huge problem. According to Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, illiteracy represents a "genuine threat for human development" with one in five adults over age 15 unable to read not only a newspaper but even a street sign or the names on a voting ballot. Click HERE for details about the 2009 observance, which focused on "The Power of Literacy" Special cartoons celebrated Literacy Day  Cartoonists worldwide have donated panels and strips that newspapers could use for free to celebrate the importance of reading on International Literacy Day (8 September). Click on the image to see an video about what they did. Animated film stars can help you support literacy  The Newspaper Association of America has launched the latest of its literacy public service advertisements with a link to a current movie. Any newspaper can use the ads for free after registering. The new advertisement that newspapers anywhere can publish features the little girl Coraline, who visits a parallel universe. Under the headline, "Discover a new world," the text reads: "What if you could travel from one corner of the globe to another, without leaving your chair ..." Other advertisements, which are in English, feature such popular characters as Horton the elephant, Wall-E, Shrek, and the stars of "Cars" and Ratatouille".
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