{"id":3117,"date":"2013-11-19T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2013-11-17T10:47:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T15:47:32","slug":"literacy-lovers-sought-for-annual-reading-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=3117","title":{"rendered":"Literacy-lovers sought for annual reading promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 2em;\"><em>25,000 volunteers will be selected to distribute free books April 23<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div id=\"post-9592\">\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Image-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3119\" alt=\"Image 2\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Image-23.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>Have you even wanted to serve as a literary philanthropist but lacked the funds? The Chester County Library and District Center may have the opportunity to accommodate your wish.<\/p>\n<p>The library has once again been selected as a distribution site for World Book Night (WBN), an effort to spread literacy, which will take place on April 23. To achieve its goal, WBN will send 20 copies of a particular book, free of charge, to \u201cbook givers\u201d to hand out in their community on April 23, a library news release said.<\/p>\n<p>A half million free paperbacks will be handed out across America all on that day by enlisting 25,000 volunteer book-lovers to promote reading by giving specially printed books to light or non-readers and to those without the means or access to them, the release said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->An independent panel of booksellers and librarians chose the 35 World Book Night U.S. titles for 2014, with input from last year\u2019s givers.\u00a0 They range from\u00a0<i>The Zookeeper\u2019s Wife\u00a0<\/i>by Diane Ackerman to<i>Waiting to Exhale<\/i>\u00a0by Terry McMillan to\u00a0<i>The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/i>\u00a0by Stephen Chbosky. Thousands of copies of each World Book Night title will be printed as special, not-for-resale paperbacks, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>To review the 2014 selected books and to apply to be a book giver, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.worldbooknight.org\/\">www.us.worldbooknight.org<\/a>. Applications are open until Jan. 5. Applicants must state where and to whom they intend to give out their 20 WBN special paperbacks.<\/p>\n<p>As a distribution site, The Chester County Library will be delivered the book giver boxes to be picked up during a special book giver reception sometime before April 23, the release said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25,000 volunteers will be selected to distribute free books April 23 Have you even wanted to serve as a literary philanthropist but lacked the funds? The Chester County Library and District Center may have the opportunity to accommodate your wish. The library has once again been selected as a distribution site for World Book Night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2200,2201],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county-library-and-district-center","tag-world-book-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}