We Give Books is a great thing for all moms, kids and their teachers. It’s a free online reading website with over 150 free digital kids’ books that the Pearson Foundation and Penguin Books put together. And for every book that kids read online, the Pearson Foundation gives a brand new book to children in need. It really is that simple – the more moms and kids who read online, the more children they help.
Today, We Give Books is lending its support to an incredible annual event: Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Campaign. They’re expecting more than 2 million people to take part in this national reading event, which is designed to break the world record for the most people reading the same book on the same day (it’s a record they set last year!). Around the country, in reading local reading events at schools, libraries, businesses, community organizations---and in countless numbers of family homes—they’re hoping to encourage everyone to focus on literacy and its importance in the lives of young people everywhere all day on October 7.
Today begins this year, as it has every year, on NBC’s The TODAY show. I’m hoping that sometime today all of you can also join me in reading The Snowy Day, this year’s official book of the Read for the Record Campaign. I know I will be reading my little guy The Snowy Day right before naptime!
If you own a copy of the book, please do read it with a child in your life. Or if you don't have it, go to http://www.wegivebooks.org/ and read it online, for free, today! With each book read at http://www.wegivebooks.com/ they in turn will donate a brand-new book to a pre-school classroom Jumpstart serves year around. With the help of record-breakers everywhere, they aim to donate 200,000 books this year.
You can read more at http://www.pearsonfoundation.org/readfortherecord/ and read The Snowy Day for yourself and with your family here.
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