07 Jun

Read A Book, Help A Child

Author: Darcia Helle  //  Category: General Nonsense

I stumbled across an interesting site the other day. This organization sponsors literacy for children by allowing you and your child to read books online for free. How easy is that? You get a free read, while doing something good for an underprivileged child!

We Give Books is a new literary program created by Penguin Group and the Pearson Foundation. To get involved all you need to do is log on to their site and read a book to or with your child. For each book you read, they donate one book to a leading literacy group of your choice, on your behalf.

All the books available for online reading through their site are picture books, appropriate for children through age 10. You’ll find a mix of fiction and nonfiction, a variety of authors, and books for reading aloud as well as independent reading.

This is the first charity I’ve ever come across that not only does great things, but doesn’t cost you a penny. In fact, they give you something free! Read a book. Help give a child somewhere the chance to do the same.

www.wegivebooks.org

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  • http://www.stacyjuba.com Stacy

    Thanks, Darcia, will check that out!

  • http://janekennedysutton.blogspot.com/ Jane Kennedy Sutton

    This sounds like a wonderful site. I’m forwarding the link to my daughter. Thanks for sharing.

  • http://winabook.westofmars.com/ Susan Helene Gottfried

    COOL! I’ve posted about this at Win a Book. Thanks for the e-mail about it, babe.

  • http://www.QuietFuryBooks.com Darcia Helle

    Stacy, I meant to send the site to you when I found it. I thought you might like it for your kids. I’m glad you saw the post, since my memory is completely unreliable!

    Jane, I hope your daughter finds some good books and passes it on to her friends.

    Susan, thanks for adding it to your blog!

  • http://junior-geography-detective-squad.weebly.com Elysabeth

    It’s an awesome idea but as someone pointed out – not many books to select from and it’s difficult to read on a laptop screen because you have to scroll too much. I did read one – a graphic novel called the “The Terror Trail” – although I would have loved to have held it and been able to flip the pages, it wasn’t too bad – was educational.

    Thanks for sharing this – E :)

    Elysabeth Eldering
    Author of the Junior Geography Detective Squad, 50-state, mystery, trivia series

    Where will the adventure take you next?

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  • http://www.QuietFuryBooks.com Darcia Helle

    Elysabeth, I don’t have little ones to read to, so I hadn’t checked out their book list. I do think the organization might be fairly new. They have a message that says their book list will be growing. And even that one book you read will in turn help a young person somewhere to obtain a new book and learn to read!

    I agree about reading on the computer. The glare from the screen kills me after a while. I had been reviewing PDFs by using my laptop and my eyes would burn after an hour or so. Now, thankfully, I have an e-reader for those things.

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