HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHARLES DICKENS!

I should have celebrated this occasion, Dickens Bicentenary, at school with my oldest students, the ones in their final year. No way. Schools are still closed because of the snow and it goes on snowing right now outside of my windows. 

I had planned to tell them about Dickens life, his picture of Victorian London,  and show them scenes from David Copperfield and Oliver Twist.

I have to renounce and postpone. But can I celebrate with you? Genius story-teller , Dickens, deserves to be read, remembered and celebrated on his 200th birthday (7 February 1812) . There will be celebrations all through the year and lots of TV programmes and new adaptations of his novels. The latest BBC series were very good. Have you seen them? Have you read my posts about them? Great Expectations was stunning and Edwin Drood a revelation to me who had never read nor seen the story.

Google remembers Dickens today

Due to my appreciation of his narrative skills and my love for period drama,  I've posted quite a lot about Dickens on Fly High!  If you've got time and feel like having a look at some of my posts to celebrate Dickens  Bicentenary with me, here are the  links:

1.  Bleak House and Tom-All-Alone's - Interview with author Lynn Shepherd

2.  BBC Great Expectations 2011

3.  BBC Edwin Drood 2012

4.  Charles Dickens in Manhattan

5.  Of Dickens, pickpockets, workhouses ... and a lost DVD: Oliver Twist

6.  Hard Times - The Novel and the BBC adaptation (1994)

7.  Kate Perugini, Dickens's artist daughter

 8.  A Tale of Two Cities - The Book and the TV Adaptation (1989)

9.  The Old Curiosity Shop - DVD Review (2007)

10. Our Mutual Friend (BBC 1997)

11. A Bleak House transformed by human love

12. Better a not-very-good David Copperfiel than Big Brother

Final suggestion: more than reading ME, I mean my posts about Dickens, pick up one of his books from your shelves, the one you loved best and  re-read it! By the way, which is your favourite Dickens novel?