Hard to believe that World Book Night is just a few hours away! On April 23, 2012 twenty thousand volunteers will each give away 20 books - one million free books just in the US.the UK and Germany will join in the celebration with another million books each.
The main goal is to encourage light and non-readers to fall in love with books and the adventure of reading. With tv, video games, sports, and the many other activities that compete for our scarce leisure time, not everyone chooses to pick up a book to relax. To celebrate World Book Night, publishers and authors and the dedicated organizers of World Book Night have decided to celebrate World Book Day (also Shakespeare's and Cervantes' birthdays) by carefully picking out 30 books that they believe in and want to share. Books that will draw people in and give them an adventure and leave them with the incomparable satisfaction and delight that a good book delivers.
Both R and I applied to volunteer as book givers and tomorrow we will both share 20 copies of Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief. 
I had planned to give out these books in Brooklyn, NY but my plans changed. I'm in Gloucester, MA with visiting family and I have to be in Boston on the 23rd. I've been thinking of the different places to give away these books, how to find non-readers and what would be the best way to approach them, offer them the book, and leave them with a bit of the excitement to read it. How do you match the person to the book? I am hoping that 20 people will fall in love with the book, will want to share it with their friends, will look for another book to give them another amazing adventure.
Are you celebrating World Book Night? Where would you hand out copies of books that you love?
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