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Expanding Horizons Through Reading

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 Books always have a special place in my heart I grew up reading books, encyclopedias, story books, short novels, etc., as my mom was once a book seller when me and my siblings were young, even as young as when I still couldn't hold my head up! This did not only teach us that books are material things that can be sold and bought, because our mom sells them, but it can help us understand the world better. What do I mean by this? Like I mentioned, I grew up surrounded by different types of printed materials like books, because of my mom’s work, it is quite inevitable. She would leave me and my little sister to their office and showroom as she roams around and offer people their products. To fight boredom, my sister and I would open one book each and little did we know, we finished a whole volume of encyclopedias. This was how we were introduced to loving reading. As we grow older, the types of materials we read have also evolved, from printed encyclopedias, to more complex ones, to y...

Davao, get ready for the biggest Book Sale in the City!

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  the   Big Bad Wolf is coming to town for the 4 th time. Just in time for the holidays, Big Bad Wolf Booksale is coming to town, it is known that excitement builds up whenever we reach the “ber” months, and what else can be more exciting than this is to be able to buy gifts as early as now. Make this year’s gift-giving more magical by giving out books! Make your Kris Kringle more exciting by going through and exploring different genres of books like from the funniest to the HARDEST to read. The perfect place to find the perfect book is what? You’re right! The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale at The Tent, Azuela Cove, Davao City on November 22 to December 1, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 midnight daily.  The BBW started as a small bookshop in Malaysia founded by Andrew Yap and Jacqueline Ng. It envisions the desire to spread literacy through cultivating reading habits and increase English language proficiency worldwide. With this, they aim to build a generation where readers can have the...