PaperTigers Reading the World Challenge 2009!
January is moving on apace so there’s no time to lose! It’s time for this year’s PaperTigers Reading Challenge! Last year, we set about reading five books from/about/by someone from each of the five geographical areas on the PaperTigers map – but this year, as we have spread our wings all the way around the world, our Reading Challenge is going to do the same.
So, without further ado, here it is:
Choose one book from/about/by or illustrated by someone from each of the seven continents – that’s:
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Australasia
Europe
North America
South AmericaHave the books read aloud to you or read them yourself; share them as part of a book-group or in class.
The books can be picture-books, poetry, fiction, non-fiction… the choice is yours.
Tell us what you have chosen/read, as and when, by leaving comments on our monthly updates – and complete the Challenge by the end of July 2009!
There are plenty of ideas for books in the PaperTigers Reviews and Reading Lists sections – and if you have any ideas you’d like to suggest to people joining in from different continents, please do!
It would also be great to join this to the Diversity Rocks! Challenge - this is a wonderfully adaptable challenge: it includes levels for The Overlapper, or even the Non-Joiner, which asks you to read one book by an author of color by the end of February 2009… Or if you’re a “Challenge Addict”:
Commit to reading 6 books, 12 books, or 24 books by authors of color in 2009. If you already read a lot of authors in one group, branch out.
Pick one or more of your challenges and commit to read four different authors of color: perhaps a black author, a Latino author, an Asian author, and a Native American author.
Well, I think at that point you could be an Overlapper AND an Addict, both while taking the PaperTigers Reading the World Challenge!
We’ll be following a similar programme to last year – each month, we’ll have one read-aloud and each of my boys will also choose their own. We’ll keep you posted – and I hope you will too!
January 13th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Marjorie, this is so exciting–Overlappers and Addicts of the World Unite in taking up the 2009 Reading Challenge!
January 13th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Excellent! Will post to my FB site.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Marjorie -
I love it!! What a great way to start 2009. Because of my kids’ ages, we are going to try and do the Challenge twice – once using picture books and once with young adult books.
January 13th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Yes, we’re looking forward to it – it will be exciting hunting out books.
Corinne, I love your idea of following the two streams of books and can’t wait to hear your choices.
January 13th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Wonderful! The book lists & review lists are such a great resource, I hadn’t seen those before and will use them often now that I know they’re there! Any specific suggestions for Antarctica?
January 14th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Hi, Ali, great to hear from you. Well, I’m hoping to post on a few ideas for each continent as the Challenge progresses – and I think Antarctica will have to be the first one. I’ll let you know – in the meantime, one author I can mention straightaway is Australian Hazel Edwards, who has written several books about the Antarctic, including the picture-book Antarctic Dad and a YA thriller called Antarctica’s Frozen Chosen…
January 15th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Troubling A Star written by Madeleine L’Engle (author of a Wrinkle in Time).
“[A] sensitive, well-written story of a young girl who unwittingly becomes involved in high-risk political and ecological intrigue, set against the starkly beautiful background of Antarctica. This is a story that is perfectly seasoned with just the right amount of everything: intrigue, romance, coming-of-age angst.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Hmmm…sounds interesting. I think I will see if I can get this at my library today.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Yes, it does – tell us all about it!
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