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As part of Share a Story ~ Shape a Future, Reading is Fundamental is donating two full sets of its Multicultural book collection for our It Takes a Village giveaways! There are 50 books in each set. Wow! Thank you! muchas gracias, merci beaucoup, danka shen ... there aren't enough ways to say thank you!

You can read the complete list of titles here (pdf), or you can watch the slideshow here.  We'll also keep a widget with the slideshow over on the right-hand side during the event.

RIF for Share a Story

Our theme for Share a Story 2010 is "It takes a village," and we wanted our giveaways toc benefit as many communities and readers as possible. Given the budget crunches schools and libraries are facing, it seems only logical that they be the beneficiaries of these collections. The Giveaway is tied to our Writing on Reading initiative, and here is how it will work.

1. Select one of the Writing on Reading questions.
2. Put together your thoughts and post them on your blog.
3. Come back to the daily Writing on Reading post and add your link to Inlinkz box AND add a comment with the name of the school or public library you would like to see receive the books.

Each day, RIF staff will be reading your posts and will select their favorite posts.They will pick three from Monday and Tuesday and three from Wednesday and Thursday. We'll announce the first three here on Wednesday and the next three Friday morning.

On Friday morning  (12 March 2010)I will have a ballot with the six finalists and open the voting. We will use a Survey Monkey poll to collect votes of the "fan favorite" of the six. The voting will remain open until 12:00 noon, (EST) on Saturday, 13 March 2010. The two bloggers/writers with the most votes will be the winners. The winners will be announced on Monday, 15 March 2010 on the Share a Story blog.

Here  is the fine print:

1. There is only one entry per person. RIF staff will select only one post per blogger. If you are a finalist from the Monday/Tuesday posts, additional posts on Wednesday/Thursday will not be considered for the contest.
2. Guest or ghost posts will not be eligible; neither will be additional posts published by the same author on more than one blog.
3. Communities in the United States are eligible. There is no international shipping.

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If you’re looking for a book, you’ve got a wonderfully comprehensive list right here … it crosses age groups and genres and will help you with every stage of your child’s reading development. Other than pulling together the list with nice neat categories, and correcting a title or two, these are exactly as offered by bloggers and their visitors during Share a Story-Shape a Future. We had so many recommendations, I’ve actually had to split them into multiple posts.

Each Day, I will include links to the previous list each day so that on Day 4, you’ll have a link to everything in one post. I have also created a PDF version of the whole kit-and-kaboodle (Thursday)

Here are a few notes:

• Click through the “recommended by” links. They often have more context and tell you why someone loved the book.
• I included all of the library-related books Jules included in her post at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
• I only added only one book to this entire collection: Wild About Books by Judy Sierra.
• I did not add additional titles by authors whom I know are prolific children’s writers. So no, we do not have every Karen Katz or Mo Willems book. However, if we had multiple books by one author, they are listed alphabetically and also with a “see also” to help you find them all.
• Because reading (not buying books) is what matters, I’m have included a link to Worldcat so you can locate these books in your local library.
• Some of the books came with links to a bookseller. Some did not. If the former, we used their link, I just added author/illustrator data. If the latter, we added a link with a Reading Tub affiliate. If it’s a series, I didn’t add a link. Our affiliate income is small, but it covers things like hosting services. Any income generated through Reading Tub-related purchases will be rolled into Share a Story-Shape a Future 2010.
• If you’re looking for e-books, audiobooks, podcasts, webcasts, and book trailers, then you’ll want to bookmark Elizbeth Dulemba’s Resource List.

Books for Adults

Toddler & Preschool Books - Fiction

Toddler & Preschool Books - Nonfiction

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