We were so proud to be involved with this episode celebrating a few of our state’s incredible authors past and present. We’d like to give endless thanks to the incredible Washington authors who took part in this episode: Frank Abe, Donna Barba Higuera, Timothy Egan, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, Nancy Pearl, and Jess Walter.
CIELO, a nonprofit organization in Olympia that provides literacy support and resources to immigrant and refugee communities in the South Sound, recently received a Library of Congress State Literacy Award for their contributions to the promotion of literacy and reading in the state. The organization was nominated by the Washington Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center…
We are very pleased to announce that Washington’s Level 2 champion, Riya Sharma, has been selected as a National honor award winner for the letter she wrote about the book “The Confidence Code.” Riya is an 8th grade student at The Overlake School in Redmond. Honestly we were not one bit surprised by her recognition, though the question this year…