“You’re never too old to pick up a book and read with a child.” That’s the message the National Education Association (NEA) hopes to get out during this year’s Read Across America celebration. The event was held on March 2, the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
Read Across America began 19 years ago as a way to get kids excited about reading. “You have this magical thing happen when an adult sits with a kid and turns the pages,” said Lily Eskelsen García, the NEA president. “The whole point is making it fun, not for the next test.”
That fun involves celebrating the funny characters created by Dr. Seuss. This year, as one of the sponsors of Read Across America, Southwest Airlines made their flight attendants on some flights wear red-and-white hats to make more people learn about the event.
Kids can celebrate Read Across America with any book. But in honor of Dr. Seuss, they might want to pick up his most recent published work, What Pet Should I Get? It was discovered 20 years after Dr. Seuss’s death and four years later published in July of 2015. In the book, a brother and a sister visit a pet shop and have trouble choosing just one animal to bring home.
Anyone can participate in Read Across America. All it takes is grabbing a book and a few loved ones, and sharing the joy of reading. “Taking out that book, like I’m going to do on March 2, and looking at those who’ll clap their hands and start reading the book with you, because they’ve memorized it, you can tell someone has lovingly sat with them and read it,” Eskelsen García says.
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