Today our school district is celebrating Literacy Day (with a side-order of heath and multi-cultural celebrations--budget cuts make for strange bedfellows!), and I'm out soaking up the events. But it made me think, because literacy is at the heart of everything we word-wizards do. I mean, no literacy, no one to read our stuff, and we might as well go take a nap (well, that's not all bad).So here's the thing: yesterday was Drop Everything and Read day, so I just want to urge every one of you to do something that makes someone more able to do just that. Help a child read a book. Read to your baby. Donate to a literacy campaign. Or go big. Volunteer at the school. Volunteer as an adult literacy tutor. Donate outgrown books to a preschool near you.
And don't forget to model what you want to see. Take an hour, drop everything, and read.
Hi, Just needed to drop back in and urge you all to pop over to Jemima Pett's blog and see her review of The Ninja Librarian--and enter the drawing to win a copy of it (or any of a bunch of other great reads).
