Our gift to you - FREE virtual school visits for World Read Aloud Day 📚
Our Gift to You: Virtual Visits for World Read Aloud Day
Mark your calendars for February 1, 2023 — it’s World Read Aloud Day!Â
LitWorld started World Read Aloud Day (WRAD) in 2010 to honor the power and joy of reading. To celebrate, authors and illustrators come together each year to offer virtual classroom visits around the world.
Several Soaring ‘20s authors and illustrators still have spots available.
Read more here.
Welcome back to our series, 20 QUESTIONS!,
where we answer questions about writing, reading, and author life.
This month’s question:
What’s a favorite family holiday tradition?
Darshana Khiani
Ever since my girls were little, I’ve given them a wrapped book under each of their pillows for Christmas morning. This way their first present was always a book. They are now in highschool and they still look forward to their surprise book.
– Darshana Khiani, author of HOW TO WEAR A SARI, illus. Joanne Lew-Vriethoff (Versify, 2021)
Read more of our holiday traditions here.
Cover Reveals
New Book Deals
Mark your calendars...
Jan. 18 - Massachusetts Book Award Ceremony featuring Rajani LaRocca (RED, WHITE, AND WHOLE). Learn more here.
Feb. 1 - Get ready for World Read Aloud Day (virtual). Find Soaring '20s authors and illustrators willing to visit your classroom (virtually) here.
Feb. 22 - The Collaboration Process, a free webinar with the editors of NO WORLD TOO BIG, including Lindsay H. Metcalf. Learn more here.
Mar. 11 @ 3 p.m. Pacific- FIRE OF STARS launch party at Barnes & Noble Palmdale (in person). Join Kirsten for a celebration of her latest book, THE FIRE OF STARS, including story times and book signing.
Mar. 15 @ 3:30 p.m. Pacific - Creating Constellations Program at the Quartz Hill Library (in person). Try your hand at creating your own light-up constellations using paper circuits. As a bonus, build your own constellation projector to recreate the night sky at home using your own flashlight or cell phone.