PageTurner awards for literacy announced

With more than 12 million books sold last year alone, author James Patterson doesn’t need to worry about getting the public to read him. But he does worry that people aren’t reading enough. Patterson’s PageTurner Awards, given to organizations and individuals that help encourage literacy, will be announced March 2. Winners range from Pam Shelton, a librarian from Vermont who moved to Africa and founded the Botswana Book Project, to First Book, which has distributed thousands of books to low–income families in the United States. Patterson is the author (and co-author) of such best sellers as “Honeymoon” and “Step on a Crack.” The awards coincide with the National Endowment for the Arts’ “Read Across America” day. Continue reading at The New York Times website.