{"id":4094,"date":"2024-02-25T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2024-02-25T11:55:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T16:55:44","slug":"the-read-aloud-rodeo-debuts-at-park-road-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2024\/02\/25\/the-read-aloud-rodeo-debuts-at-park-road-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Read-Aloud Rodeo Debuts at Park Road Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Park Road Books and I are pleased to announce the debut of the Read-Aloud Rodeo, a read-aloud story-time event that will take place at Park Road Books (4139 Park Road) from 10:30 to 12:30 on Saturday, March 2, 2024. At the Read-Aloud Rodeo, local educators and literacy advocates will participate in a two-hour marathon of reading picture books aloud to children. For more information about this event, please click on the following link: https:\/\/www.parkroadbooks.com\/event\/read-aloud-rodeo-celebrating-read-across-america-day<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The Read-Aloud Rodeo coincides with the National Education Association\u2019s Read Across America Day, which traditionally takes place on the second day of March in honor of Dr. Seuss\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Park Road Books and I previously collaborated on an annual event called the Seuss-a-Thon, which involved a marathon reading of picture books by Dr. Seuss.  Like the previous Seuss-a-Thons, the Read-Aloud Rodeo will include a marathon reading of picture books, but at this year\u2019s event not all the featured picture books are by Dr. Seuss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Read-Aloud Rodeo is just one of the many ways that Park Road Books contributes to the vitality of Charlotte\u2019s literary community.  Charlotte\u2019s only independent, full-service bookstore, Park Road Books regularly partners with local cultural organizations to promote the reading of literature.  Every year, for example, Park Road Books helps the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation with its Verse and Vino fundraising event.  This high-profile event brings bestselling authors to Charlotte, and Park Road Books takes care of ordering and selling these authors\u2019 books to the event\u2019s attendees.  The store also works with over thirty area book clubs by providing the members of these clubs with opportunities to purchase (at a discount) the books that they discuss at their meetings.  In addition to working with these area book clubs, the store supports several book clubs that meet in the store.  During the holiday season, Park Road Books partners with Charlotte-Mecklenburg\u2019s Communities in Schools on a project they call their Book Tree.  This project provides area children with free books that they can keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The history of Park Road Books can be traced back to 1977, when John Barringer founded the bookstore under the name of Little Professor Book Center.  In August of 1999, Sally Brewster joined the store, and they changed the name to Park Road Books.  She bought the store from Barringer in 2003, and she has run it ever since.  Over the years, Park Road Books has established itself as an integral part of Storied Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Park Road Books and I are pleased to announce the debut of the Read-Aloud Rodeo, a read-aloud story-time event that will take place at Park Road Books (4139 Park Road) from 10:30 to 12:30 on Saturday, March 2, 2024. At the Read-Aloud Rodeo, local educators and literacy advocates will participate in a two-hour marathon of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storied-charlotte","tag-reading-aloud"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}