With Books Falling From the Sky — EngagingConflicts
A lovely title to a moving essay on literacy, on how profoundly books can change lives, yes, as can the lack of them. Roxanne Coady is an independent bookseller, owner of R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut.
The annotation for the essay (called a manifesto, at the ChangeThis website) describes it thus:
49% of the adult population of the United States reads below a sixth-grade level and has dificulty navigating such common demands as reading job applications, ATM screens, and outpatient care instructions. In this evocative manifesto, Roxanne Coady calls for change and suggests how you can improve the lives of others through promoting literacy in your community.
That’s the “bare” description — it’s more than that, truly moving, at least to those of us who also grew up loving reading and finding so much of value in the worlds opened by reading and libraries.
Click on this for the .pdf download. It was released this week at ChangeThis.com.
