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What children's books teach lasting lessons? What are those lessons?

I was confronted with the ten stories of Struwwelpeter at the age of five by my grandparents.I clearly remember my feeling of utter horror, when the stories were read to me, and this feeling got even stronger when I was able to read them on my own two years later.Threatening a child in order to streamline its behavior? Torturing his soul with pictures that haunt him in his dreams at night just to make a point?It was only an imagination then, yet I understood that not all human beings are nice and do not necessarily have the interest to do everything for my well-being. The person who wrote this certainly wasn't. In spite of my age then, I clearly remember me imagining that this has to be the sickest set of stories ever, written by the sickest man on this planet by far. My feelings have not changed in the least since; they actually turned into a conviction: In order to educate and dominate, human beings are OK with using terror, creating angst, brainwashing and abuse storytelling to establish, conserve or increase their power. For me, this experience set the base to mistrust any kind of institution that tells me to only and always want the best for me, be it religions, political parties or insurance companies.If I had the option to ban and burn exactly one book on this planet and purge it from all historical records forever, I wouldn't hesitate to do it. However, there was one lesson I learned from it early: there also is a dark side to human nature. This lesson was certainly not the purpose that the Struwwelpeter was meant to serve in the first place.So in a way, the exposure to this "children's book" marked one of the most relevant turning points for me to grow up. But I wish it hadn't - at least not that early.

Which book helps you become creative and let you have infinite ideas?

Infinite VisionWhen a crippling disease shattered his lifelong ambition, Dr. Venkataswamy (better known as Dr. V) chose an impossible new dream: to cure the world of blindness. The tiny clinic he founded in India defied conventional business logic and is now the largest provider of eye care on the planet. At Aravind, patients choose whether to pay or not. Millions are treated for free, yet the organization remains stunningly self-reliant. Serving everyone from penniless farmers to the president, it delivers world-class outcomes at a hundredth of what similar services cost providers in advanced nations. Its model is emulated by organizations everywhere from Rwanda to San Francisco.Drawing inspiration from spirituality, and of all things, fast food franchises, Dr.V and his team (which now includes 21 ophthalmologists across three generations of his family) have created a global phenomenon. Infinite Vision is the first book to probe Aravind's history for the distinctive practices and values that unleashed its improbable success. It reveals the power of a model that integrates innovation with empathy, service with business principles, and inner change with outer transformation. It shows how choices that seem naïve or unworkable, can, when executed with wisdom and integrity, yield powerful results - results that light the eyes of millions

How many books should one read in a year?

You should read exactly the amount you feel you can, while not sacrificing the pleasure of reading and turning it into some sort of must-have duty.My 2017 reading challenge is 30 books. Back in my school times I used to read about 60 books a year which makes it little more than one book a week. But I also know people who somehow manage to read 150–200 books within a year. And those books are not some slim 300-page health guidebooks/photo albums but true pearls of modern literature! Are those people actually better than you and me? Of course they are. But we must not forget about prioritizing things here: your reading pleasure is more important than being better.Unless reading books is a part of your job or something like that, you shouldn’t bother with being worse in comparison. If you want to read more within a year take my advice:Start slowly with some trivial number, say, 12. In Poland over a half of population declares that they don’t read a single book in a year. So 12 is pretty good.Once you start, keep the schedule. Lets stick to the 12. Without hard math involved, this gives you one book a month. Get yourself a habit, figure out some fixed time of the day you can spent reading. Evenings in mornings are the best in my experience.Do not let other things distract you while you read. Keep those time-consuming devices/activities away from you.Some people compose a full list of the books they’re going to read before they take the annual challenge. It may help but I didn't find this technique very significant. You may often come across a book you never heard of before and you’d love to start reading it as soon as possible. In that case having a tight book schedule can ruin the joy of reading.

What are some facts about books?

The most expensive book ever purchased by a person was sold for a whopping $30.8 million. The book was bought by Bill Gates, and the book he purchased was titled Codex Leicester by Leonardo DaVinci. The most expensive book ever sold was a manuscript of the Book of Mormon which was valued at an astounding 35 million dollars! It was purchased by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe longest sentence ever printed in French literature (in English) was 823 words! It can be found in Les Miserables by Victor HugoThe longest sentence ever printed in a book is in Jonathan Coe's The Rotter's Club, which contains a staggering 13,955 word long sentence that takes up the span of 33 pages!The three most read books in the. world are the Holy Bible, Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, and Harry PotterThe story of Alice in Wonderland is based on a story that Lewis Carroll, the author, heard from his close family friends that they told him while on a boating tripThe longest book in the world is titled In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, containing almost 1.3 million words in a total of 13 volumes, and a little over 9.6 million characters in totalThe most banned books in America happen to be the Harry Potter series due to the large amount of various complaints received regarding its usage of violence and darkness, and how this was unsuited or its intended age group that was mainly comprised of younger audiences, claiming that these books set a bad example and promoted anti-family/occult thoughts, some even claiming it promoted Satanism. It also raised a huge amount of controversy because of its extended usage of witchcraft and magic and people believed that it promoted young individuals to engage in the practice of witchcraftVirgina Woolf, a very famous author who published many well-known works such as Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, wrote all her books while standing.Dr. Seuss coined the phrase “nerd” in his book If I Ran the Zoo, which he published in 1950, that contained the earliest record of the usage of the word “nerd”Sources:11 random facts about books that are weirdly interestingThe longest to the largest: 11 fun facts about books that will leave you amazed25 Random Things About ReadingEdit: Wow, 13k views!?!? I never thought this answer would get so many views, but thank you guys so much. I also wanted to thank Natalie Harper for pointing out a mistake in one of my facts.