help support literacy in kids

[somedaybitch]

i went to Borders yesterday and picked up the latest issue of Film Maker magazine. it featured a rather unsettling interview with Francis Ford Coppola - he was both brilliant and kind of, i dunno, truculent - but that's not why i'm posting this. at the checkout counter, the clerk asked me me if i wanted to buy a book for their literacy drive. stupid me walked right by the display at the front of the store. the books are specifically targeted to kids 9 years old and under. if i wanted to support it, i could go pick out whatever book i wanted, pay for it, and Borders would donate it on my behalf.

that? coolest thing ever.

i picked a Nancy Drew book, because i remember, with SO MUCH love, how transported i became when reading Carolyn Keene's stories. of course i thought it was even cooler when i found out that Carolyn Keene was actually a pseudonym for multiple authors that contributed stories to the series.

got a few bucks to spare? go to your local Borders and pick up a book for a child. we're all here on lj for love of story, whether it's the telling of small snippets of our lives or the re-weaving of worlds we love, or maybe a little of both. we post to share that love. take it one step further and help a child down the path to that love, and the freedom and power that comes with it. help a kid read.

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[simplystars.livejournal.com]

*totally off-topic, but giggles at your gary jones icon of fabulousness*

:D

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

hee! i heart Gary Jones.

[flouritephoenix.livejournal.com]

Have you heard of Reading to Kids? Once a month I read to kids at grade schools on Saturday mornings. Sadly I have to miss it this month because of work, but it's really a great program. http://readingtokids.org/Home/main.php

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

suh-wheet! thanks for link Em.

[itsazoo.livejournal.com]

When I went to Conn. in May to meet my fave author, Stephen Coonts, it turned out to be a thing for RIF. Prizes were given to kids etc. I don't think the thriller authors were all that thrilled to be there and there weren't that many fans due to how expensive it was to go, but the many raised went to RIF. I've not known many children but I always try to encourage people to read. How else could I have been stationed on an aircraft carrier during Viet Nam, friends with pilots who flew missions at night (especially when women weren't allowed!)? Or helped rough-edged investigators living on an old barge called the Busted Flush, in Fla. Or flew dragons through Thread Fall. Or knew a royal family in 17th Century Japan? All this I've done through reading. It takes me away to places and times I could never see otherwise. It's hard to imagine anything more important to me!

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

How else could I have been stationed on an aircraft carrier during Viet Nam, friends with pilots who flew missions at night (especially when women weren't allowed!)? Or helped rough-edged investigators living on an old barge called the Busted Flush, in Fla. Or flew dragons through Thread Fall. Or knew a royal family in 17th Century Japan? All this I've done through reading. It takes me away to places and times I could never see otherwise. It's hard to imagine anything more important to me!

yes, this exactly!