Literacy/Reading

World Book Night is still offering an Excel giver application form for booksellers.

Tomorrow — Friday, January 11 — is the last day to file a marketing agreement to be a host store for this April 23’s celebration of World Book Night.

Amy Broadmore, a member of the U.S. Planning Team, has extended an invitation to independent bookstores across the nation to join in the February 14 celebration of International Book Giving Day, which is dedicated to getting new, used, and borrowed books in the hands of as many children as possible.

World Book Night U.S. Executive Director Carl Lennertz urges booksellers to act now as two crucial World Book Night deadlines are just around the corner. Lennertz also shares some promotional ideas for right now.

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Carol Chittenden of Eight Cousins has launched an initiative to help Bellevue Hospital in New York City rebuild its Reach Out and Read program, which lost thousands of books in Hurricane Sandy. The program serves approximately 11,000 underprivileged children a year.

Bookstores that wish to participate in the 2013 celebration of World Book Night in the U.S. must return a Host Store Marketing Agreement by Saturday, December 1.

Stores that wish to participate in the 2013 celebration of World Book Night in the U.S. must return a Host Store Marketing Agreement by December 1.

Authors Ann Patchett and James Patterson will be co-chairs of the 2013 celebration of World Book Night in the U.S. Also announced today were the 30 titles to be given away during the April 23 campaign as well as the opening of the online application process for volunteer book givers.

Plans for the next celebration of World Book Night, on April 23, 2013, are well underway, and World Book Night U.S. Executive Director Carl Lennertz is encouraging stores to return their 2013 Host Store Marketing Agreement “before the holidays heat up.”