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On October 6th Dragonwings Bookstore is is planning to help break a world record for the largest shared reading experience in history. You can join us, and more than 2 million children and adults across the country and around the globe, by reading Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney. We will be attempting to break the record set last year by 2,057,513 readers in Jumpstart’s Read for the Record literacy campaign.
Our Llama Llama Storytime at 1:00 PM on Thursday October 6 will be registered at Read for the Record. You can be part of our pledge group by coming to the storytime, or you can visit the store anytime on October 6th to read the book and be counted. We will make Llama Llama bookmarks and give out Llama Llama tattoos at our storytime.
Copies of the book will be available to read all day at Dragonwings, and Llama Llama dolls will be given away with any Llama Llama book purchase including the new release Llama Llama Home with Mama. Earlier in the day we will be visiting the Waupaca Pre-school to read to a class of 18 students. You could think about reading the book to a kindergarten class, or at a preschool or daycare center. It also counts if you read the book at home to your child. You can call us to be part of our pledge group, or you can sign up at Read for the Record (readfortherecord.com).
Why are we doing this? For fun and to support literacy programs:
Jumpstart was founded in 1993 at Yale University and has been setting up volunteer programs across the country to give children in low-income neighborhoods a jumpstart in preschool to help them be successful in life. The first Read for the Record campaign was launched in 2006 to raise awareness of Jumpstart’s literacy efforts. Each year since then Americans have joined together to break the world record by reading classic stories: The Little Engine That Could (2006), The Story of Ferdinand (2007), Corduroy (2008), The Very Hungry Caterpillar (2009), and The Snowy Day (2010).
