Jack London

Within the frame work of the “Discover USA” project Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk arranged a session for the students from the local school No. 141. 
The session was dedicated to the anniversary of the American writer Jack London who was born on January, 12.
The WOA’s Head Svitlana Usenko introduced the 8th-graders to the biography of Jack London. The slide show presented the writer as a colorful, controversial personality. Prior to literary and journalistic accomplishments London tried numerous jobs. This experience enabled him to write fascinating stories about life of seamen, farmers and factory workers of California, the gold-diggers in the Yukon Territory, etc.
 Between 1900 and 1916 J. London completed more than 50 fiction and non-fiction books, hundreds of short stories and numerous articles. Several of the books and many of the short stories are classics and still popular; some have been translated into as many as 70 languages.
To popularize J. London’s books among the library patrons Ukrainian librarians created several book-trailers to his books. The WOA’s guests were offered the screening of “The Sea Wolf” and “The Love of Life” book trailers.
The group was introduced to the WOA’s collection of J. London’s books. The students examined them with interest and the most ambitious borrowed the original (not adapted) versions of the books.
Number of participants – 18 persons.

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