One Village, One Mission: READ, To the Library and Beyond ...
The Lincolnwood Library recently received news from a galaxy far, far away of three planets in peril. Planets DREA, RADE, and ARED are all inhabited by non-readers. That's right, the occupants of all three planets don't know about the fun, adventure, and power of reading.
The library is on a mission to inform these three planets of how great reading is—and we need the help of Lincolnwood's youth to do it. The plan? Through this year's summer reading program, titled One Village, One Mission: READ, To the Library and Beyond..., we're asking the youth of Lincolnwood to read as many minutes as they can, to power a journey to the planets and transform them into worlds of readers. Keep in mind: it takes a space shuttle 90 minutes to orbit the Earth; it took the Apollo 11 rocket 4,320 minutes to reach the Moon; it took the Voyager space craft 1,655,504 minutes to go from the Earth to Saturn. Will Lincolnwood youth read enough minutes to travel to planets? We're counting on it!
At the end of the summer when the mission is accomplished, children and their families will be invited to a dedication ceremony honoring their commitment to transforming the planets into worlds of readers. At the ceremony, children will be able to plant flags on the planets, to claim them as territory of the READ Federation.
