Knowledge Day in Kazakhstan - the 1st of September

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The 1st of September, also known as Knowledge Day, is celebrated today across many CIS member countries and former Soviet republics: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.

It symbolizes the start of another school year for schoolchildren and teachers at schools and students and professors at universities.

The first day of September also has a sweet tradition of the First Bell when a first grade girl rings the bell signalizing the beginning of the school year.

Here we present 12 Books every child has to read including for the purposes of learning English:

1) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Drama. Criticism of hypocritical society that leads to degradation of a human being.

2) Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Novel. Friendship, thirst for freedom and justice

3) Three Men in a Boat (To saynothing for a Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome

Humorous novella. Friendship, English humor.

4) The Time Machine by HerbertGeorg Wells

Science fiction. Philosophical view on conceptualization of time in consciousness of a man of XX century.

5) Alice in Wonderland by LewisCarroll

Fairy tale. Humor, paradoxicalities of life

6) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

Fairy tale. Good and Evil, friendship

7) Twenty Thousand Leaguesunder the Sea by Jules Verne

Novel. Adventure, friendship, nature perception

8 ) The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Allegoric fairy tale. Attitude towards yourself, our planet, inner and external purity, vices of adults through children’s eyes “You're responsible for what you have tamed”

9) The Call of the Wild by JackLondon