The winners of Dav Pilkey’s “Be a Reading Superhero” educator contest have been announced. The organizers designed this venture to be part of the 2016 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge initiative.
More than 4,000 submissions were sent in. A total of fifty educational institutions have been selected. Each winning school will be given enough Scholastic books so that every one of their students can take one home. Click on this link to view the full list of winners.
Pilkey, the Scholastic Summer Reading Global Ambassador, gave this statement in the press release: “When it comes to kids and reading, there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure. Even though I struggled with reading growing up because of my dyslexia, I was fortunate to have parents who encouraged me to choose the books I wanted to read: silly books with tons of illustrations that made me laugh out loud. And if it weren’t for these books that motivated me to keep turning the page, I wouldn’t be the writer I am today. Summer is a great time to discover the fun and joy of reading and I am honored to be the global ambassador of the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge campaign.”