Community Reads

In my quest to understand how to create a community read in an exciting, successful and relatively pitfall-free way I interviewed Nancy Pearl creator of the "One Book, One City" concept.

In addition, I talked with Charlie Shaw and Pat Burns, two educators who were involved with community reads in their schools.

The books discussed in the show are:
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and
Crash by Jerri Spinelli

Nancy Pearl spoke of a grant that she received from the Wallace Foundation that allowed her to create the "One City One Book" program and also mentioned the Seattle Public Library Center for the Book.

Nancy Pearl also has an action figure that was created in her likeness, which is part of what makes her one of my personal heros (although all the reading stuff is good too).