 I recently found out about an idea concocted by the amazing Media Specialist at Arrowhead Elementary in Virginia Beach. She came up with a way to connect readers and authors, but it snowballed into so much more!
Find out about the We Connect program in
this article, by following the hashtag #WeConnect or by following
Kellee on Twitter. Kellee was nice enough to let me participate and I've received some fabulous letters from her students. Perhaps you'd like to start a similar program where you live to spark reading excitement.
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our book collections to see if they reflect the world around us. I've been profoundly touched by a young woman who wrote to me about her daughter and her challenges as a little person. The only books for kids seem to make fun of her. I think all young people deserve to see someone like themselves in a story. That's one reason I strive to make my books contain what some call 'soft diversity', where we don't dwell on our differences we just are! You can find out more about the day
Not content to read aloud to seven different schools (Skype and live) on World Read Aloud day, I've enlisted the help of five DAR members to read at a local school. It's going to be a READING FRENZY! 
