Now this is something different, as it sits on its display to catch the eye of book lovers as they enter the store, and it’s not unwieldy to carry and fits cozily in a pocket or purse:
Description:
Civilization Time – The 2-Word Book
First published: 12009CT
ISBN: 978-0-646-50793-4
Authors: Tara (b. 12002CT) & Pete Hogan (b. 9956CT)
Format: the tiny 56 mm (H) x 40mm (W) tablets come in a box filled with desert sand.
Display Stand: Sumerian/Iraq desert theme.
Advertising Slogan: “Only 2 words long, but the most meaningful in the history of civilization”
What their saying about the Civilization Time “2-Word Book”
“Couldn’t put it down …now I can say I read a book today … seriously, it got me thinking, I want to know more about the true origins of everything, including about what my own ancestors got up to…” – Everly, Year 2, Kiengir Public School
Book Launch /Author Signing Coming Soon
CT-zen founding authors, Peter & Tara Hogan, are currently setting things up (wish we had an agent!). Could be Dymocks George Street Sydney, Kinokuniya Town Hall (since Pete used to live in Japan and do ‘tatsu-yomi’ at their store).
In addition we will be at whatever book store wants to invite us around the world as we step up our book signing tour. A key objective is to encourage kids reading of history – who first invented what, e.g. Sumerian cuneiform writing and the first ever recorded story, “The Gilgamesh Epic”.
Enquiries and Orders
Tara & Pete Hogan
Civilization Time Book
PO Box 1
Potts Point NSW 1335
Sydney Australia
http://civilizationtime.wordpress.com
CT Book Design
The inaugural edition is literally a “Childmade Book” – co-author and producer / printer Tara Hogan (7 yo established auteur – just Google her). Production is slow depending on what’s on the Playhouse Disney Channel. (Output might change if we could ever interest a mainstream publisher.)
Format
Hardcopy – 12 tablets, 6 as double-sided, 56 mm (H) x 40mm (W), corner bound. Comes in ancient looking box (Tara Art) 65 mm (H) x 50mm (W) – you open it and the tablets are buried in sand (can any kids in Iraq send us original Arabian sand!)
CT Book on Youtube
1. Unearthing the CT Book (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kmiWiLdki4) 16 sec.
2. Tara Designing CT Book (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk0Qp03Vv2Q) 1min 41sec.
Pricing
The price varies depending on order quantity and Tara’s mood.
[Remembering Tara is currently 7 years old (b. 31/12/02) she will personally make another collector's edition if the price is right, just make her an offer she can't refuse.]
You can of course negotiate a deal for a large order CT Book Collector’s Edition, with customized design, to be printed by a company of your choice. And each copy would of course be signed by Tara and Pete.
CT Foundation
We’re thinking about this rough pricing guide – with proceeds used to setup a not for profit foundation:
1. Inaugural CT-zen Collectors Version – $12.00
2. Inaugural CT-zen Collectors Version with family details included in production – on “Dedication Tablet 5 and CT-zens Tablet 11) – $120.00
3. Gold Version – extra goodies – visit and hang out with CT-zen founders Peter and Tara Hogan – $1,200
4. Platinum Version – even extra special – CT-zen founders Peter and Tara Hogan come to you! – $12,000
5. Officially Designated Founding Benefactor of the Civilization Time Foundation – $120,000!
6. Officially Designated Founding Benefactor of the Civilization Time Foundation Building – $1,200,000!
Generally the idea of the CT Book is to encourage children to not just read, buy or borrow books from the library, but to have their own listing – to write and publish little books, and along the way find out about history / check for themselves, especially origins, and to learn tolerance for other cultures. So that’s one of the reasons it has been kept very very simple.
Our website is also set up so kids around the world can get involved e.g.
1. What does “Civilization Time” mean to you?
2. How do you write it in your language?
3. What should be in Civilization Time-line as a major milestone or invention?
Some suggestions:
• 1CT (12,009ya) End of the last ice age and emphasis on hunting and gathering, beginning of farming, living in one spot, with extra food some of the group have time to invent stuff…
• 7000CT – writing invented in Sumer (Iraq);
• 10100CT – paper from China;
• 10200-10800CT – numbers from India especially the concept of zero – 1s and 0s being the backbone of modern computer technology. • 12009CT – publication of “Civilization Time” Clay Tablets Book – smallest most meaningful book ever published.
The CT Book Text
Contents:
Tablet 1.
Civilization
Time
Peter Hogan • Tara Hogan
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2.
The shortest
(12 tiny tablets
corner bound)
most succinct
(two words)
most meaningful
book ever published
in the 12,000 year
march of civilization
since the end of the
last ice age.
–
3.
[Title Page]
Civilization
Time
Peter Hogan
Tara Hogan
[Your Name]
Our Ancestors
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4.
Copy-me!
The authors Peter & Tara
(6 yo) Hogan waive all
copyrights -
“Civilization Time”
belongs to all of us.
ISBN: 978-0-646-50793-4
1. Civilization. 2. History.
Published 12009 CT
Childmade Books
Just Google us!
–
5.
[Dedication]
For Our Children
[ Graphic: Tiny CT tablets
book in palm of 6 yo's hand]
“Selfishness lasts
a day
Civilization endures
forever”
- Unknown Sumerian
Scribe c. 7000CT.
–
6.
Foreword
As families all
round the world
reel from the
financial crisis
characterized by
greed and selfishness
it’s timely to unearth
just two words.
Peter & Tara (6yo)
Hogan – 31xii12008
–
7.
[Body Text: 2 words in various languages]
Civilization…
–
8.
…Time
[The End]
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9.
Credits
The first inventors e.g.
Japan – Jomom pottery;
Sumer – cities, writing
(Gilgamesh Epic)
the wheel, law…;
Egypt – time;
Balkans – copper working;
China – paper, printing,
gunpowder, ice cream!
India – numbering system
(esp 0-1 computers);…
–
10.
Notes to New CT-zens
There can be no
copyright on Civilization
Time – feel free to copy,
add your own artistic
expression, market, and
sell our little CT Tablets
meme at a price to make
distribution viable for
you. Add your details to
Tablet 11.
–
11.
[Graphic: Un-Earthing Authors]
Founding CT-zens,
Peter & Tara Hogan
(ancestors pioneered
Byron Bay 11882).
And new members:
[Your details here]
–
12.
[Back Cover]
The shortest most meaningful
book ever published in the
12000 year march of civilization
[Graphic: Stone clock-like artefact
("C.I.V.I.L.I.Z.A.T.I.O.N." has 12 letters!)]
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From: CIP/Cataloguing cip@nla.gov.au
Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Subject: CiP 19491
mailed-bynla.gov.au
Dear Publisher,
Thank you for applying for a National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry.
In accordance with the Copyright Act 1968 a copy of each printed book published must be lodged with the National Library. Under relevant State or Territory Legislation a copy must also be lodged with the appropriate library or libraries in the state of publication. For information about Legal Deposit, see the website at: http://www.nla.gov.au/services/ldeposit.html or contact the Legal Deposit Unit, National Library of Australia on 02 6262 1312. Post to: Legal Deposit, National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600.
The Cataloguing-in-Publication entry for your forthcoming publication is as follows:
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Authors:
Hogan, Tara.
Hogan, Peter.
Title: Civilization Time / Tara Hogan ; Peter Hogan.
ISBN: 9780646507934
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: Civilization. Time.
Dewey Number: 909
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Contact
Tara & Pete Hogan
Civilization Time Book
PO Box 1
Potts Point NSW 1335
Sydney Australia
