Ari’s Comments (group member since Mar 19, 2008)

Ari’s comments from the Announcements group.

If you take just 5 seconds ever day to click on the Literacy Site, sponsors will count the clicks and donate books to children of low income families. Save it to your favorites and make a point to click it every day. It doesn't cost you anything but a few seconds of your time: you can make a difference in helping a child discover and learn to love books.

Within the U.S., access to books is essential to reading development: the only variable that directly correlates with reading scores is the number of books in the home. However, most recent data describes a profound, even shocking gap: while the ratio of books to children in middle-income neighborhoods is approximately 13 books to 1 child, the ratio in low-income neighborhoods is 1 book to 300 children.* In addition, over 80 percent of childcare centers serving low-income children lack age-appropriate books. Together, The Literacy Site and its domestic partner, First Book, provide children from low-income families in the U.S. with books they can take home and keep.

Announcing the call for entries into the second annual Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, designed to honor the year's best children’s books, authors and illustrators. The new book awards program is accepting entries until August 16th, 2008 for books with 2007 or 2008 copyrights or that were released in 2007 or 2008, and is open to authors, illustrators, and publishers of children’s books written in English and intended for the North American market.

Presented by Jenkins Group and Independent Publisher Online, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are designed to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading. Awards will be given in 30 categories covering the full range of subjects, styles and age groups that children’s books are written and published in today.

The Jenkins Group will be announcing the finalists in the 2008 Ippy Awards on May 9th. Winners will be announced on May 23 at Book Expo America.

The Ippy Awards are for independent and small press titles. There are 65 categories and both a regional and national level. There are three awards in each category, Gold, Silver and Bronze.

The Tease_publishing group here on Goodreads is offering free ebooks to members who will review them. Check out:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/3...
for details.

Here's another book swap site, but it works differently from Swaptree.com
the url is:

http://www.paperbackswap.com

Instead of waiting for a trade match, you list the books you're willing to trade and you receive points for each. Then you use the points to purchase books on the site. (1 pt. usually per book)Get 2 free points just for signing up and listing 10 books.

Don't know if any of you know about this website..

It's called

http://www.DailyLit.com

It's a website where they will send you chapters of your desired book to your email address! Too cool. All the classics are FREE!

Just announced by Warp Graphics:
"the Complete Elfquest Online project. There's over 6000 pages coming throughout 2008, so if you're new to the Elfquest universe, or if you want a refresher course on the overall story timeline, go to http://www.elfquest.com and click on "online comics". Check back every Friday for additional content.

Warp plans on showcasing all 30 years of Elfquest, for free! Don't miss this great opportunity to enjoy one of the longest running independent comics.

If you have a limited budget for book buying, I'd like to suggest:

http://www.swaptree.com

Membership is free. You can make a list of what books/cds/dvds you have to trade and a list of what you want. The site automatically finds matches for you.