Penn Reads Literacy Book Donation Project
Date and time
Location
Online event
Donors will purchase pre-selected children's books from Bookshop.org which will be donated to Philadelphia-area child care centers.
About this event
You can be the catalyst for sparking a child’s imagination! The Penn Reads Literacy Project, a service activity of the MLK Day of Service, supports Philadelphia day care centers and local bookstores. Help a young child develop a love of reading by purchasing books from a curated list of short multicultural, anti-bias children’s books. Go to: https://tinyurl.com/Pennreads2021 to make your purchase (delivery needed by January 25th).
Make sure to ship to:
Penn Reads Literacy Project
250 N. Highland Avenue, B
Lansdowne, PA 19050
JOIN THE DISCUSSION!
On Monday, January 18th from 12 Noon to 1:00PM, you are cordially invited to a most timely and informative virtual presentation featuring a renowned scholar. Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas will focus on children’s and adolescent texts, the teaching of African American literature, history, and culture in K-12 classrooms, and the roles that race, class, and gender play in classroom discourse and interaction. Register on Eventbrite at https://tinyurl.com/DrThomasLecture
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, PhD, Graduate School of Education - Associate Professor: Literacy, Culture, and International Education is the author of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games. You may purchase her book at https://tinyurl.com/Pennreads2021.