Can you feel it?! Sparks are flying here at LitWorld, and we hope you feel the electric energy too. Today officially marks 100 Days until World Read Aloud Day® (WRAD), our biggest celebration of the year.
Mark your calendars for February 5th, 2024, and get ready to join us for a full day of magic as we celebrate the joy of reading aloud.
Dear LitWorld Friend,
In 2011, the United Nations declared October 11th as the International Day of the Girl, a day dedicated to recognizing the rights of girls. Since then, LitWorld has celebrated this day, rallying our global community to join our "Stand Up for Girls" campaign, where we advocate for every girl's right to share her story and transform the world.
The LitWorld community has proudly celebrated the International Day of the Girl for the past 13 years, and this year was no different.
Our global partners commemorated this day by putting together special activities to empower girls in their local communities, and we couldn’t be prouder to stand united in this mission alongside them.
Thanks to your support, we can continue to Stand Up for Girls not just on October 11th, but every single day.
Scroll down to see a recap of how our partners celebrated!
Dear LitWorld Friend,
Greetings from our headquarters in New York City! From where we are, the leaves are beginning to take on the warm hues of autumn, ushering in the new season. It's a wonderful time to renew our energy as we prepare for the last quarter of the year.
As the season turns, we find it fitting to welcome new changes to our team. We’re grateful to every community member who has contributed to the past, present and future of LitWorld, and we look forward to this next stage of growth.
Read on to learn how our LitWorld team is evolving.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy's unimaginable destruction and devastation, LitWorld is supporting relief efforts by contributing new books to the Brooklyn Public Library's Bookmobile program.
Bookmobiles travel to the most impacted neighborhoods delivering vital services, free books, and the comfort of stories to children. If you are interested in supporting this important program, more information is available here.
At LitWorld we celebrate birthdays with Kindles, cupcakes, poems, songs, and above all, joy! This week Daija Spaulding, a Harlem Teen LitClub member, and former LitWorld Teen Intern, turned sixteen! We had so much fun celebrating with the teens who make the world a brighter, lighter place.
Earlier this year Daija was featured on the Huffington Post, read her inspiring piece here.
Our team has landed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti! In the coming days we will be meeting with local, community based organizations The TOYA Foundation and the Children of Haiti Project to discover how we can work together to ensure that the future leaders of Haiti change the world with the power of story. We are also overjoyed to be running training sessions for 20 new LitClub leaders!
Follow our trip on the LitCorps Ambassador Blog:
LitWorld Founder and Global Ambassador for Scholastic's Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life. campaign, Pam Allyn, shares why reading helps children live a better life. This video underlines the importance of access, choice, involvement and reading practice, and provides insight on how Scholastic Book Fairs can help families and schools raise readers.
"The most meaningful gift that we as parents, and as educators, can share with children is our own involvement." -- Pam Allyn, Executive Director of LitWorld
For more information on Scholastic's Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life. campaign visit: http://www.scholastic.com/readeveryday/index.htm.
LitWorld has been selected by the Pearson Foundation as the recipient of a $250,000 matching grant! The Pearson Foundation identifies major changemakers who are creating solutions for the educational disadvantages young people face around the world.
LitWorld is totally unique, creating literacy sanctuaries of hope, strength and joy for all children in all circumstances. Literacy is a most crucial, powerful tool that people use to realize the life they want to live. They get to make their own choices. Tell their own stories. Map their own futures.
If we can raise $250,000 by December 31, 2012, the Pearson Foundation will match these contributions dollar for dollar.
Here is what can happen if we can meet this goal. One child becomes a reader. Two children read together. More children join a LitClub. Many more children participate in LitCamps. The community transforms itself with the power of stories.
Our gratitude is immense for the moment we are in. The time is urgent, and the time is now. Let’s pay the joy forward. Make a gift before the end of 2012 and double the impact of your donation.
Pam is an authority on the Common Core State Standards, and a leading voice championing equity in education for all children. In this book she advocates for the standards as a new Bill of Rights for all children, leveling the playing field, and raising expectations.
Her message in this book is that the power in education comes from the core. Not only the Common Core State Standards, but the core within each of us that carries the power of stories, and words to truly change the world.
Learn more here.
LitWorld is excited to announce our partnership with A Thread of Blue, a stationary company with a big heart! A Thread of Blue was founded by LitWorld friends Rachel Albert and Debbie Rosmarin to recognize rites of passage, and is named for the Jewish tradition of sewing blue threads into the Jewish prayer shawl. These blue threads symbolize equality.
Rachel and Debbie reached out to us with a most generous offer, to donate 20% of the sale of any cards from their site to LitWorld! We were thrilled, but we didn't stop there. Rachel and Debbie then asked if we might like to create a set of LitWorld notecards! We are honored to be working with A Thread of Blue and present to you the first publicly available line of LitWorld stationary, featuring images from our LitClubs around the world. Click here to check them out.
If you use the code: LTW12 when you place your order for LitWorld notecards, or any other notecards from A Thread of Blue, 20% of the proceeds will go to LitWorld!
We know you will love these cards as much as we do, and thank you for supporting LitWorld in partnership with A Thread of Blue.
Visit: http://athreadofblue.ipower.com/store/litworld.html
At checkout, enter code LTW12 to allocate 20% of the proceeds to LitWorld.
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