help support literacy in kids
Aug. 7th, 2007 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchi 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.
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.
