Send a "Celebrate Children's Book Week" e-mail

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Use this Shockwave/Flash animation (104KB) to encourage your friends, colleagues, and family to join in the Children's Book Week fun. Attach the file to your e-mail, with instructions for recipients to open it in any web browser.

To download on a PC: right-click this link and select "Save Target As" or "Save Link As." On a Macintosh: click and hold (Netscape) or ctrl-click (Safari, Internet Explorer) the link for the "Save"/"Download" option.

Use one of the suggested messages below in the body of your e-mail (or write one of your own) and send it to everyone you know who loves books and children.

Suggested messages:

1. Children's Book Week 2007 is November 12-18—Children's books and the love of reading will be celebrated with storytelling, parties, author and illustrator appearances, and other book related events in your area. Check with your local children's bookseller or librarian for more details.
2. Rise Up Reading!, this year's theme for the 88th observance of Children's Book Week, encourages children, and the adults who care for them to spread the joy of reading by spending some time with a book each day. Celebrate Children's Book Week November 12-18, 2007.
3. Remember to take your kids to the library or bookstore during Children's Book Week, November 12-18, 2007, and Rise Up Reading!
4. Children's Book Week is November 12-18, 2007—The theme is Rise Up Reading!, so be sure to read from a book every day.
5. Create your own message including a list of your favorite children's books or perhaps a quote from a favorite character.