Searingtown’s 2nd Annual Literary Festival! Searingtown PTA and Searingtown Library have put together two exceptional weeks of celebrating the power of the written word!

Our 2nd annual LITfest is set to kick off the week of February 13th and continue the week of February 26th, after President’s Week. We will participate in LitWorld’s World Read Aloud Day (week) by inviting others into our literary community via Skype! Mrs. Kliegman will be hosting author Skype sessions in the library; other reading celebrations will be going on in the classrooms as well!

On Friday we are so pleased that the PTA has generously brought us another fabulous author, DAN GUTMAN! Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series. He is also the author of the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world, and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 10 million copies —and is always in the library’s top 5 circulated books!

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LITWORLD WORLD READ ALOUD DAY

Week of Feb.13

DAN GUTMAN Friday, Feb. 17th

PTA BOOK FAIR

Begins Feb. 28

SEARINGTOWN SCHOOL HERRICKS UFSD

Searingtown School LITfest 2017 Celebrating Books and Reading!

Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, Dan has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife, Nina - who, by the way, attended Searingtown School!.

He will be with us the entire day and will even be eating lunch with ten lucky Searingtown students chosen from the ‘DINE WITH DAN’ contest! You can visit him online at www.dangutman.com

Students will have different opportunities to purchase books during our celebration of literacy. Flyers have gone home to pre-order autographed books by our amazing visiting author, Dan Gutman.

Additionally, The PTA Scholastic Book Fair will offer a wide array of popular books for purchase starting February 28th.

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ABOUT WORLD READ ALOUD DAY “Every year World Read Aloud Day calls global attention to the importance of reading aloud and sharing stories and is now celebrated by over one million people in more than 100 countries and reaches over 31 million people online.” ~LitWorld.org

Throughout the week of February 13th we will celebrate World Read Aloud Day, which takes action on behalf of the 793 million people who cannot read. We will re-launch our successful “Kids Helping Kids” quarter collection. The money raised during our week-long campaign will go to litworld.org to mobilize children and adults around the world (including the United States) to advocate for literacy as a human right. Through efforts such as this, our Searingtown students see how they may positively impact other children.