World Book Night USA

It's World Book Night!  It is finally here!  You might be wondering just what that it and what it is all about...well click on the link and discover something wonderful that you might want to be a part of next year.

Across  American tonight 5,000 volunteers will be giving out books.  We get to decided who gets our books.  There were several choices and we were to choose out top three.  Then the surprise email came telling me I get to hand out Because of Winn-Dixie.  I am so excited.  Here is a list of the books offered...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Blood Work by Michael Connelly

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Peace Like a River by Robert Goolrick

Q is for Quarry by Sure Grafton

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Stand by Stephen King

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The H1story of Love by Nicole Krauss

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Michael and I went to the Barnes&Noble in Field's Ertel last week to pick up my box of books.  And if you look real close you will see that the book has a special cover.  Love it.

We, the volunteers, are to seek out light or non-readers.  There are several ways to do this.  We are to be creative.  One lady is going to Dunkin' Donuts for one hour.  She posted on FB that she would be there and people can come and claim one of her twenty books until they are all gone.  I don't think it will take too long.

I am choosing to select people that I know will love the book and then classrooms that don't have lots of resources to buy books.

I guess in some what this will fulfill my dream of someday having a little school bus full of books and snacks that I would drive into the back hollows in the mountains of WV to read to children and open up their minds and imaginations and make then lovers of books and reading.

So today before nap time we will begin with chapter number one.