Literacy/Reading

The second annual celebration of World Book Night in the U.S.  is set for Tuesday, April 23, 2013, and plans are in motion on several fronts to match and exceed the successes of the campaign’s first year.

How booksellers can meet the diverse needs of middle grade readers of a wide range of ages and abilities was the subject of a panel discussion at the first-ever Children’s Institute, presented by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA, at BookExpo America.

A panel of booksellers and literacy group leaders at ABA’s Children’s Institute examined how booksellers can begin assessing the literacy needs of children in their communities, as well as efforts already underway to meet those needs, to arrive at a plan that helps ensure books and reading programs reach the children who need them most.

Monday, June 18, is the deadline for booksellers to send in title recommendations for World Book Night 2013.

Survey results released this week by World Book Night show a high level of satisfaction with the experience among this year’s givers.

The first World Book Night in the U.S. has come and gone, but the stories of thousands of givers across the country are still being chronicled on Twitter and Facebook, on blogs and in photos, and in local and national newspaper coverage.

Meeting community literacy needs will be the subject of an ABC Children’s Institute panel discussion at BookExpo America.

At World Book Night parties from New York to Hawaii this week givers celebrated, shared stories, and left with their carton of books to be given away on the night of April 23.  Here, in photos, is a look at some of the fun at “pickup parties” at bookstores (and one library) across the country.

World Book Night U.S. Executive Director Carl Lennertz reminds booksellers of the resources available for next week’s giver parties and for the April 23 celebration.

World Book Night has released a list of cities across the country with the highest number of givers per capita for the April 23 celebration.

With less than three weeks to World Book Night, plans are well underway at indie bookstores across the country for book “pickup parties” to be held in the week leading up to the April 23 celebration.

Ingram is offering downloadable promotional materials that booksellers can use to build displays for next month’s celebration of World Book Night, as well as an extra discount on the 30 featured titles.

Louisville, Kentucky, is hosting next week’s American Independent Business Alliance “Go Local, Grow Local” Conference, and GLIBA members can take advantage of special half- or single-day rates, courtesy of the Louisville Independent Business Alliance.

Bookstores’ promotional plans for World Book Night’s “great giveaway” include a mini parade of lights, TV crews filming the odyssey of the givers, and entertainment provided by local teenage musicians.

Booksellers Leslie Reiner, Carol Chittenden, Roxanne Coady, Sam Droke-Dickinson, Valerie Koehler, Ellen Mager, and Kenny Brechner talk about their efforts to close the widening literacy gap between the rich and the poor.