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AMERICAN MOSAIC -January 4, 2002: Top books, movies and music of 2001 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC —.. VOA’s radio magazine in Special English. (THEME) This is Doug Johnson. On our program tod
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The book industry is trying to get a good read on its future. These days, instead of turning paper pages, many readers reach for handheld devices. These electronic readers not only store books to sho
Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Ryan Geertsma. Voice 2 And Im Marina Santee. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easy for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 In June of 2011, Megan Cox Gur
One parent in a bookstore in Tianjian municipality says she always keeps her son away from the cartoon book shelf, because most books there focus on war, violence and the darker side of life. Another parent says she often finds inappropriate content
Amazon China launches an event in Beijing to promote reading on Thursday, April 20. The company also unveiled a joint report with Xinhua on the reading habits of the Chinese population. [Photo: China.org.cn] April 23 marks this year's World Book Day,
01Reading Comic Books GLOSSARY graphic novel a long and complex story where the words of the story are printed within a series of drawings that show what is happening, usually written for adults* Some people who dont enjoy reading regular books like
Pre-Listening Vocabulary toll road: a road that requires drivers to pay a fee to use it shred: to break up into very small pieces pulp: soft, wet material congestion: high volume; crowdedness absorbent: holds a lot of water Tarmac: a road material ma
Guest host Mike O'Sullivan talks with an author (familiar to our longtime listeners) whose newest books use fairy tales to teach foreign languages to American children. David Burke is known as Slangman, and in his earlier books, he translated the lan
People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads; everyone watches TV, rents videos, or goes to the movies. The most popular reading material is comic books, movie magazines, and TV guides. City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car wash
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Maurice Sendak And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we tell about Maurice Sendak, an award winning writer and illustrator of more than one hundre
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Maurice Sendak And I'm Mario Ritter. This week on our program, we tell about Maurice Sendak, an award winning writer and illustrator of more than one hundred
Can You 'Think and Grow Rich?' A Famous Books Says, 'Yes' From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report in Special English. Can you think your way to wealth and success? Napoleon Hill believed that if you think the right thoughts you can. I
PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Barbara Cooney, 1917-2000: She Created Many Popular Books for Children MARY TILLOTSON: Now, the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, Shirley Griffith and Steve Ember tell about the life of Barbara Cooney, the cre
Digital Revolution Transforms Comic Books For the past 30 years, Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles has been selling comic books to adults and children like eight-year-old Evan Cray. I just like holding the pages and reading it, he says. The look of
E-books Catch on at Public Library Complete the following sentence: You go to the library to check out . . . . .? The obvious answer is books. But a harder question might be, What do we mean by book? Electronic books or e-books, have established a fi
A Land In Limbo Hopes That Books Will Keep It Going Let's go now to a book fair. The Hargeysa International Book Fair takes place in a country that is not internationally recognized. The Republic of Somaliland is a self-declared state. To the rest of
NOEL KING, HOST: Literature often reflects the times in which we live. And there's a recent trend in literature for young people that deals with one of the world's biggest crises - the global wave of refugees. Now, books that tell the story of the re
Guest host Mike O'Sullivan talks with an author (familiar to our longtime listeners) whose newest books use fairy tales to teach foreign languages to American children. David Burke is known as Slangman, and in his earlier books, he translated the lan
The monastery had a stone wall all around it. Brother Patrick took Jack and Annie through the gate. Beyond the gate was a small church with a hangingbell. There was also a vegetable garden and six stonehuts shaped like giant beehives. We grow all our
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And I'm Mary Louise Kelly, with a confession. I have never read a self-help book. I missed Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, skipped The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People - not that I couldn't use the help. But I