Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry Unveil First of 150 Little Town Libraries
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry and entrepreneur wife Ayesha Curry are opening Little Town Libraries all over the Bay Area in California to promote literacy. Through their Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, Stephen and Ayesha Curry have unveiled the first of 150 Little Town Libraries at Franklin Elementary in Oakland. “From kindergarten through third grade, making sure you are reading at your grade level by the time you get to third grade determines your educational future,” said Ayesha Curry. “So for us, turning those numbers around is really, really important.” According to a press release from the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, 1 in 3 children are reading at grade level by the end of third grade. In Oakland after two years of distance learning, only 15.4% of Black and 12.5% of Latine elementary students are reading at grade level.
Here’s the Cover Reveal of Alexis Henderson’s Upcoming Gothic Horror Novel House of Hunger
Alexis Henderson has tweeted the cover reveal of her upcoming gothic horror novel House of Hunger, first revealed in a Buzzfeed Books newsletter. The cover image is from photographer Lillian Liu and the cover design by Katie Anderson, who also designed the cover for Henderson’s The Year of the Witching. Read more about the novel and preorder it here.
Britney Spears Confirms She’s Writing A Book
Weeks after reports that Britney Spears had signed a multimillion-dollar deal to write a tell-all memoir, the pop star confirmed Monday that she is currently writing a book. In a since-deleted Instagram post, Spears wrote, “I’m writing a book at the moment and as it’s actually healing and therapeutic… it’s also hard bringing up past events in my life.” Spears also acknowledged that, while it’s difficult addressing her thoughts about events she wasn’t comfortable talking about in the past, she has decided that it’s time to “talk about it.”
National Read-In Set for Thursday Evening
Join Stella Parton and a slate of authors whose books have been challenged for a National Read-In event on Thursday, April 7th.