{"id":15665,"date":"2015-04-23T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=15665"},"modified":"2015-04-23T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:00:54","slug":"anatomy-of-a-great-community-read-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=15665","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Great Community Read Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the inaugural year for the Kingfield School Community Read and they came up with a great plan for launching it! The book being used was kept an absolute secret. Excitement in the gymnasium was running high. The first thing to do was to figure out the name of the book!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/belldandy.booksite.com\/blimages\/ckupload\/imgBiav5Uwc3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kingfield&#8217;s wonderful English teacher, Maggie Adams, had been the driving force behind the community read. A group of area seniors were invited to the launch. Then, grades 3-8 formed lines and teams were made up of one child from each grade and one senior. Maggie projected a group of Scrabble titles onto a screen, showing the letters to be found in the title. The first team to solve the anagram would be picked to reveal the books and hand them out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/belldandy.booksite.com\/blimages\/ckupload\/img3Rmw58wc4.jpg\" width=\"600\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">A team solved it with only one hint, the first word being: The. Then the lights went out and the music came on. Principal Kim Ramharter and an able assistant wheeled out the books on a display wrapped as a present!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/belldandy.booksite.com\/blimages\/ckupload\/imgrBXtBawc6.jpg\" width=\"600\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0The winning team tore it open and revealed 175 copies of Megan Frazer Blakemore&#8217;s great book, <em>The Water Castle<\/em>. Each winning team member grabbed a pile of books.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/belldandy.booksite.com\/blimages\/ckupload\/imgho4AsVwc5.jpg\" width=\"600\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then the team hit the stands and gave everyone in the room a copy <em>The Water Castle<\/em>. Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/belldandy.booksite.com\/blimages\/ckupload\/imgljlNVywc8.jpg\" width=\"600\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">I was up next, to tell everyone a bit about why <em>The Water Castle<\/em> is such a great book, and such a great choice for their Community Read, particularly one launched with mystery and puzzle solving.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/belldandy.booksite.com\/blimages\/ckupload\/imgHj9RXhwc10.jpg\" width=\"600\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">After that, principal Kim Ramharter sat down and read everyone the first chapter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/belldandy.booksite.com\/blimages\/ckupload\/imgpus4OMwc11.jpg\" width=\"600\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Many people followed along in their copies.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/belldandy.booksite.com\/blimages\/ckupload\/imghyMYWvwc12.jpg\" width=\"600\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">There were still 10 minutes left for everyone to read more on their own before it was time to get ready for the bus. The Community Read launch mission was a giant success!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big reveal with all the right ingredients, secrets, mystery, puzzle solving, and community outreach \u2013 plus a great book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}