#TellEveryStory

Dear Friend,

This year we've been celebrating the value and the joy of embracing every voice with our #TellEveryStory campaign.  

We know how important each and every one of our perspectives is as we work toward a world of true equity and inclusion.

As a community-centered organization, we value the opportunity to collaborate with brilliant minds and big hearts who believe in our mission to uplift children through the power of stories.  And that includes you!

This is why we’d like to invite you to be a part of LitWorld’s narrative. As part of our mission to #TellEveryStory, we’d like to tell yours!

Please take a moment to share about yourself via this Google Form.

We’ll be sharing all of the stories we collect as we celebrate LitWorld's work this year over the next several months, and we hope we can include yours!

Celebrating our first ever WRAD-a-thon!

This past World Read Aloud Day, we teamed up with Scholastic and Storyvoice to launch our first ever all-day WRAD-a-thon—and thanks to hundreds of thousands of listeners like you tuning in from around the globe, it was our biggest World Read Aloud Day event yet. Check out some of these awe-inspiring stats from the big day!

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Introducing LitWorld's New Executive Director

The LitWorld team is thrilled to officially announce our new Executive Director, Caitlin Cassaro.

Caitlin Cassaro

Caitlin joins LitWorld following an impressive ten years as the Executive Director of Extreme Kids & Crew, an organization dedicated to providing play and arts programing, as well as social-emotional learning and family support, to young people with disabilities. Before Extreme Kids, she served as CFO for Friends of Firefighters, a nonprofit mental health and wellness organization founded in response to the 9/11 attacks, and co-founded the Red Hook Playgroup, a nonprofit progressive community-based preschool. Caitlin is also a dual masters’ (MBA and MSW) recipient.

Caitlin believes deeply that service is successful only when done in collaboration with the people and communities being served. She takes great pride in leading nonprofits with transparency, business acumen, and empathy. She is incredibly honored and excited to step into the role of new Executive Director for LitWorld, an organization that encompasses the values she holds dear, and to partner with the staff and board to drive the mission forward. 

“I deeply connect to LitWorld’s mission and appreciate how our community-based programming comes to life through collaboration and respect. To be literate is to be able to read the world around us—to be able to tell our story— and I am honored to be part of the team and to deepen and expand this valuable work.”

— Caitlin Cassaro

World Read Aloud Day around the globe!

Earlier this February, millions of readers, writers, and storytellers raised their voices for the 14th annual World Read Aloud Day® (WRAD), making this year's celebration one of our biggest yet.

In our WRAD-a-thon alone, over 19 different Scholastic authors and guest readers streamed live on Storyvoice from nine different countries, reaching more than 400,000 readers and 12,000 classrooms!

Stay tuned as we share even more incredible stats and celebrations from the big day, and check out a few highlights from LitWorld's program partners and more organizations from around the globe below!

In Uganda, Art of a Child hosted an incredible World Read Aloud Day celebration for their community with games, reading crowns, and—of course—plenty of read-alouds!

In Pakistan, over 330 people participated as Seeds of Hope Foundation celebrated World Read Aloud Day in the Burj community. The day included games, arts and crafts, a special read-aloud, a parade, and a delicious dinner of chicken biryani.

In Indonesia, World Read Aloud Day events were held far and wide at schools, libraries, and more! Our thanks to @ndoropapih for sharing, and to @readaloudindonesia and all the hard-working volunteers for making these celebrations possible.

In the Philippines, Project PEARLS teamed up with the National Library of the Philippines to host an all-out World Read Aloud Celebration for communities in Tondo and Bulacan including reading crowns, read-alouds, and a parade!