Guys, I am such a nerd. I always have been.
My dreams for this community often involve story times and libraries and visions of children sitting around in huts over books.
I loved Book It! as a kid: maybe for the pizza? But really, for the books. {And the personal goals and winning against myself. I’m my best competition.}
Anyway, this has been a long time coming, and it’s finally here! It’s been hard to collect a selection of books in Burmese that are at a good level, ensure they are positive topics, and simple enough for all readers. We finally found a set in Yangon last year, but weren’t able to bring it back in our limited luggage. Fast forward through nine months of Facebook conversations and friends willing and able to go to the publisher’s office to buy the books…and we have them!
We now have a collection of 38 books in Burmese, most of them biographies of famous people around the world and throughout history.
And we have a Book Club! This summer, we are challenging the kids to read. If they read five books through the summer and write a few short sentences telling us what they learned, they get a t-shirt. If they read six to ten books, they get a t-shirt, and we’ll all go together to get ice cream and play games at the local arcade. And if they read eleven books or more, we’ll be wearing our t-shirts to pizza and the arcade!
We made our own Book It for the summer, and as the season unfolds–English classes cancelled; everyone encouraged to sit inside–I’m not sure we could have rolled it out at a better time!
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