ONE BOOK, EVERY YOUNG CHILD EVENT IN TIOGA COUNTY

Author & Illustrator Suzanne Bloom draws for Tioga County children.
photo property of Green free Library

More than 900 Tioga County Pennsylvania children participated in a county-wide event as part of Pennsylvania’s One Book, Every Young Child program on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. This event was arranged by the county’s public librarians in cooperation with the school districts in the county. School students and preschoolers from local day care centers were invited to attend.

During the event, author and illustrator Suzanne Bloom read two of her stories, The Bus for Us and A Splendid Friend, Indeed. At the end of each program, teachers were presented with copies of Bloom’s book, The Bus for Us, which they gave to each child in their class. Copies were provided by grants from the Packer and Taber foundations
One Book, Every Young Child is made possible through a collaboration of various agencies, including the state Department of Education and the state Library Association and is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by the state's Office of Commonwealth Libraries.

Previous selections for the Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child program are:
• 2012 Book Selection
Stop Snoring Bernard by Zachariah OHora
• 2011 Book Selection
Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job by Stephen R. Swinburne
• 2010 Book Selection
What a Treasure! by Jane and Will Hillenbrand
• 2009 Book Selection
If You Were a Penguin by Wendell and Florence Minor
• 2008 Book Selection
Up, Down, and Around by author Katherine Ayres and illustrator Nadine Bernard Westcott
• 2007 Book Selection
A Splendid Friend, Indeed by author and illustrator Suzanne Bloom
• 2006 Book Selection
Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse by author and illustrator Lindsay Barrett George