Rhode Island Center for the Book

📚SAVE THE DATE📚 October 16th!
Join us for our Back to School Book Bash at Ochre Court and help us provide new, relevant books for schools and libraries across the state! ❤️Email [email protected] for sponsorship info and event details.

Join us THIS Tuesday, July 30th for a Seaside Chat with the one and only Curtis Sittenfeld! Free and open to all. Register here: https://events.salve.edu/event/summer-reads-at-salve-9373 Hosted in partnership with our friends at the Pell Center.

Join us Thursday, July 25th at 6:30pm, for a Seaside Chat with Dawn Tripp. She'll be diving into JACKIE with Katie Kinnell, bookseller and Reading Across RI Committee member. Free and open to all. Hosted in partnership with our friends at . Register here: https://events.salve.edu/event/summer-reads-at-salve

Buy books from your local bookstores like we do! 📚💕

We're kicking off Seaside Chats THIS Wednesday (7/17) with our friends at Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy 📚😎Join us!
FREE and open to all. It's BYOLC ( bring your own lawn chair)
Details here: https://events.salve.edu/search/events?event_types%5B%5D=40543858034297

😎📚🎉To celebrate summer we're announcing a RI library challenge!

Visit 5 libraries this summer and send us a photo at each one...and we'll send you a summer reading surprise package!

🎨 Design shout out to

We're SO excited to announce our Seaside Chats summer series, with our friends at the ! Mark your calendars and join us on the back lawn of Ochre Court. Free and open to all. Register here https://events.salve.edu/department/pell_center_for_international_relations_and_public_policy 📚🌊

As the school year draws to a close, we're sending a heartfelt shoutout every educator who goes the extra mile to participate in our programs. 📚❤️ 🌈

Congratulations to Vanessa Lillie! 📚BLOOD SISTERS is the 2024 RI Great Reads Adult selection for the Library of Congress National Book Festival!

We had such a great time hosting the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Regional Gathering at the Pell Center! What an inspiring day, learning about the Library’s programs and connecting with amazing individuals doing crucial literacy work!

🎉HUGE Congrats to Hayley and John Rocco!📚WILD PLACES is the 2024 RI Great Reads Kids Selection for The Library of CongressNational Book Festival!

Want to help choose the 2025 Reading Across Rhode Island title? We’re looking for readers who believe in the power of sharing stories with their neighbors! Email [email protected] to get involved! 🎨snaps to

Huge shout out to master crafter Meg Hamlin-Black for assembling these beautiful quilt squares,decorated by Reading Across Rhode Island participants, as part of the 2024 SOLITO program. This Welcome Blanket will be on display at The Museum of Work and Culture and then gifted to Dorcas International to welcome incoming refugees ❤️

Happy ! 🎉Cheers to all the teachers who go above and beyond to volunteer on our committees and participate in our programs! We couldn’t exist without you❤️ 📚

Join us TOMORROW (5/4)!

Join us at the RI State House on May 4th! Get a free copy of THE LOST LIBRARY, meet authors Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, watch a premiere of the KRARI play, performed by theatre students, check out the Jr Tones performance, watch the premiere of the RI Student Reader KRARI film + arts& crafts! All FREE and parking is free too! 📚🎤🎵🎨🎭🐈

Tomorrow (Saturday, April 27th) is Independent Bookstore Day!!📚Join us in supporting all the amazing Rhode Island bookstores and buy local! They are essential members of our community❤️

Join us at the RI State House on May 4th! Get a free copy of THE LOST LIBRARY, meet authors Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, watch a premiere of the KRARI play, performed by theatre students, check out the Jr Tones performance, watch the premiere of the RI Student Reader KRARI film + arts& crafts! All FREE and parking is free too! 📚🎤🎵🎨🎭🐈

Our Education Chair Maureen Nagle did a podcast with Javier Zamora!
Check it out!
The Boston Globe
Moses Brown School
Rhode Island Department of Education - RIDE

At age 9, he journeyed from El Salvador to the US — without his parents - The Boston Globe On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Javier Zamora talks about his new memoir, “Solito,” and Maureen Nagle talks about why it’s this year’s Reading Across Rhode Island selection.

Check out the Living Literature performance of SOLITO this Saturday (4/20) at William Hall Library, Cranston Public Library! FREE and open to all.
Rhode Island Library Association Rhode Island PBS Education Services Rhode Island Department of Education - RIDE Living Literature - www.livingliterature.org

Enjoy this sneak peek of Living Literature's Solito performance! Saturday April 20th at 2:30 - William Hall Library in Cranston. Free and open to the public. Featuring local actors Marina Tejada, Alexander Crespo-Rosario II, and Arturo Puentes.
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Grateful and inspired by Javier Zamora and the Center for the Book community!📷by

Thanks for coming Lauri Fridovich Lee! We are so grateful to have you on our Development Committee!

Our Reading Across Rhode Island author event with Javier Zamora is tonight! Thanks to all our sponsors for making it happen and supporting the program this year!!❤️📚

It's 401Gives and we need your help TODAY! Donate here: https://www.401gives.org/organizations/rhode-island-center-for-the-book

The 2nd annual Maureen Kenner Poetry Contest for RI students in grades 7-12 opens April 1st! Cash Prizes! Submit ONE poem between April 1 -15th. Details here: https://ribook.org/2024/03/28/2024-maureen-kenner-memorial-prize/

Do you know students in grades 3-5 who love to read? Help them enter the 2024 RI Student Reader Contest! Deadline is March27th

Join us for the Civic Engagement and A Welcoming Rhode Island panel on Monday, March 25 at 5:00pm! We are thrilled to be hosting this event with and can’t wait to hear from our amazing panelists: RI State Senator Sandra Cano, Channavy Chhay, Executive Director at the Center for Southeast Asians and Teddi Jallow, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the RI Refugee Dream Center. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-engagement-and-a-welcoming-rhode-island-tickets-861506678667?aff=oddtdtcreator

Do you know students in grades 3-5 who ❤️reading? Help them enter the 2024 Student Reader Contest! Swipe through to see how the application process works and some FAQ’s. Submissions are currently being accepted at the link in bio and at ripbs.org/education and will close on March 27th. 📚📖

Join us for An Evening with Javier Zamora on April 11th, 7pm at Salve Regina University! Free and open to all. Register here:https://events.salve.edu/department/pell_center_for_international_relations_and_public_policy
There is also an option to attend a paid reception before the event, from 5:30-6:30pm at Ochre Court.
Salve Regina University Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Rhode Island Library Association Rhode Island PBS Education Services

SAVE THE DATE! Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass are coming to RI on May 4th for the Kids Reading Across Rhode Island Celebration at the Rhode Island State House. “We are both thrilled and honored that kids across Rhode Island are reading The Lost Library together. This story was written to celebrate the mystery and magic of books, and we can’t wait to share the day with all of you in May. Till then, happy reading!”