Déniché en occasion, cet album est un grand souvenir: ma première lecture empruntée dans le cadre d'un cours sur la littérature pour la jeunesse et il m'avait laissée une forte impression. As with many books, however, the book's main message is revealed in its sub-title: "The enduring power of connecting the generations."The author, Marc Freedman, CEO of Encore.org, wants us to understand that we live in an age-segregated society, one where housing, labour markets, education and pensions policy combine to separate the old from the young. This "age apartheid" is not only out of step with current demographic trends, he argues, but down-right counter-productive: It impedes the happiness of individuals, who benefit enormously from these cross-generational relationships, and it limits progress on a host of social ills. How to Live Forever is not a book that tells you the secret of immortality, but a fantasy story about a boy called Peter who goes in search of a missing book (yep, you know the title) from a library where he lives. Well, to be precise, this library will come to life after it closes its doors at night and the shelves will begin to rearrange themselves and the rows of books will transform into rows of town houses and bustling with activities. That's where Peter really lives. There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root. Coverage: Word List Words

First of I really loved the entire concept, and the worldbuilding is so good. The descriptions of the alternate world are somehow really detailed, but also vague enough that I feel every reader could have a substantially different image, which I love. Delia Lloyd is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing.A seasoned writer and editor, she worked for a decade in radio, print and online journalism. Her reporting and commentary have been featured on outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and The BBC World Service.After searching high and low for it, Peter finally found the missing book through four old men. Peter doesn't understand why these four men aged if they have the book, surely it doesn't work, does it? But they told him it works and brings him to see the Ancient Child who will then enlighten him through his experience and why he's decided to hide the book. This book is called 'How To Live Forever'. And now, Peter has the book and it is his mission to deliver the forbidden book to the Ancient Child. This is a ready-to-go lesson slide collection with teaching notes for How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson. There are 11 PowerPoint lessons which will easily last 3 weeks. Das Buch lebt eindeutig von den atemberaubenden Bildern, denen die Geschichte lediglich einen Rahmen bietet. Dieser hält die Bilder zwar zusammen, wird aber vom Inhalt gnadenlos in den Hintergrund gedrängt und verblaßt völlig. I had fond memories with this book. Although it is an illustration book and yes it may seem very kiddy and yes it is amazing. It's a book that I secretly love because I grew up admiring the insanely detailed illustrations and the illustrator/writer. How To Live Forever reveals the whole concept of what it means to be alive, how to live to the fullest, and the importance of not taking life for granted. As the story goes, a boy who lives on the shelves of a library that comes to life at night goes to seek the book on How To Live Forever - a book once read, gives immortality to its readers. The little boy travels through the library as if traveling to different parts of the world and witnessing the different cultures and genres that were left unexplored before. At the end, he comes across another little boy who has read the book and is immortal. The main character is warned about the book - saying that immortality is not exactly the best thing to wish for. The boy is a living example of immortality - not able to experience adolescence, adulthood, etc. It's a sad story but at the very end, the main character is determined to live life and wish for nothing more than to live every minute given in life.

Perhaps the politics of connecting the generations will be the focus of Freedman's next book. I look forward to reading it. To make this case, Freedman begins by walking us through an arrayof evidence to support the claim that older people are a largely untapped resource for social good. It's not just that there are so many of them. (In the U.S. alone, where most of his analysis focuses, there are soon to be more older people than younger ones.) It's that this cohort wants to help. Fully a third of older adults in the United States already exhibit "purpose beyond the self" - i.e., they identify, prioritise, and actively pursue goals that are both personally meaningful and contribute to the greater good. That's 34 million people over the age of 50 who are willing and able to tutor children, volunteer in their communities, clean the neighbourhood parks, or work for world peace. Jim Mellon is reported to have described the longevity market as “a fountain of cash”, and has urged friends to invest. Business is already lucrative, but it is a market that appears to take little notice of efficacy. The majority of anti-ageing products remain unregulated – “patent pending”, in the vernacular – and more than a few appear utterly useless. Earlier this year, the US government released a statement condemning the anti-ageing fad of transfusing young blood into older bodies, a practice researchers have proved effective in mice but which, the FDA said, “should not be assumed to be safe or effective” in humans. (The treatments cost thousands of dollars, and led to concern that “Patients are being preyed upon by unscrupulous actors.”) We have been anti-ageing our skin for years. Why not our insides, too?The punchline from this research is that relationships are the critical ingredient in well-being, both individual and societal. Or as Freedman puts it, "The real fountain of youth is in the same place it's always been: it's the fountain with youth." At first blush, I didn't think a book entitled How to Live Foreverwas for me. I was expecting a hard sell on a new killer vitamin that would add years to my life... gene therapy that could prevent chronic disease...botox for the brain. That sort of thing.

Caesar’s calendar may not have had Colin Thompson’s witticisms, but the Romans did found a December Christmas, which more than suffices for a wallow in nostalgia. In this spirit of seasonal sentimentalism, I watched four seasons of Winx Club and reread this childhood gem. Kids will enjoy the simple story and the big picture illustrations. Older, more well read readers, children, teens, and adults, will “get” all the illustrations, which are time consuming to read. Peter then comes across four old men, each four standing on one leg, each as straight and solid as statues, only three awake. These men couldn't possibly know of the book! But they did, and Peter before he knew what he was getting himself into followed one old man through a Chinese garden that took his breathe away and to a pale small child, his body as young as Peter, his wistful child's soul long lost through the bitter taste of the livelihood he's lead. This boy had read the book, this boy had became immortal, he had grown old inside while his loved ones grown old on the outside.

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To live forever is to not live at all." so says the Ancient Child to Peter. Peter walked through the garden taking in the Ancient Child's words, of his sorrow and while sitting on the bank of the river Peter had finally made up his mind. He wouldn't read the book. The illustrations were gorgeous and had lots of little Easter eggs for adult readers such as the names of the books in the library. The moral of the book was very philosophical and reall pushes the reader to think deeply about the nature of life. What is more important to live a full life or a long life? Children explore the themes and ideas set out in the book, as well as writing a prequel, character and setting descriptions, lost book posters and also letters of warning/advice. Of course it is,” said Festival. “There are twelve months thirty days long and the five days at the end of the year that are left over are called Remember. It’s when we all remember what happened in the past year, all the people who were born and all the people who died. You have to have Remember, otherwise you’d start the next year out of balance.”

This is the first PowerPoint lesson from the two-week+ ready-to-go lesson slide collection for How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson in which children explore the themes and ideas set out in the book, as well as writing a prequel, character and setting descriptions, lost book posters and also letters of warning/advice. Are we anywhere near to a breakthrough? So far, research has produced modest yields. Gerontologists speak prophetically of potential, but most warn a significant human development remains somewhere far off in the distance – almost in sight but not quite. Richard Hodes, the director of the National Institute of Aging, a US government agency, told me that, though research in animals has led to “dramatic increases in lifespan”, some of them multi-fold, “There has been far less quantitative effect as those models have moved towards mammalian species.” The biologist Laura Deming, who in 2011 established the Longevity Fund, a venture capital firm that supports “high-potential longevity companies”, told me that startups continue to successfully root out biological markers of ageing – inefficient cells, mitochondrial decline – but that, in humans, “We really don’t know right now what will work and what won’t.”De Grey shares Strole’s belief that innovations are coming. But, unlike Strole, he considers current strategies almost pointless. He does not take hundreds of supplements. He does not pay for stem-cell transfusions. “I want to wait and see,” he says. At 56, he is content to sit tight for treatments that have become “progressively more effective… so I don’t have to use clunky, first-generation therapies that may have side-effects.” So, if you have a little one who likes detailed, clever, funny art, or is at all drawn to visual story-telling or even just amusing pictures, this book, (and pretty much any Thompson illustrated book), could be a very nice choice. I read this book over and over again. Not only because the fun image in the book watched my eyeballs but also the main idea of the story is very clever and interesting. It is really a fantasy idea that library could become "alive" after midnight when the door is closed. There are so many hidden details in this picture book need readers to discover with their imaginations.