L Littlewood: October 2010 Archives

On Thursday, October 7th, thousands of local children, educators and adults, passionate about literacy will join a national movement attempting to set the world record for the largest number of children reading the same book on the same day with a participating adult.

Read to Succeed Buffalo is joining the national Read for the Record campaign and has been working diligently to organize reading sites and groups across Buffalo for the event.

"We're trying to get as many schools, daycare, childcare and community centers involved as possible," said Deborah Porter, Community Outreach Coordinator for Read to Succeed.

Porter has also been busy organizing a number of "celebrity" readers as well. The list currently includes Sheriff Tim Howard, Senator Antoine Thompson, WKBW's Kyla Igoe, local poet Sherry Robbins and Mayor Byron Brown who will all read at various locations around Buffalo.

Last year's local participation totaled close to 14,000 readers