This holiday season, Bay Areans can contribute to the Gift of Reading book-drive and help turn kids onto great, life-changing literature. I’m going to do a run to my local when I get home and round up as much of the following as I can for donation — books I read and wish I’d read when I was a kid:
- Lewis Carrol: Alice in Wonderland
- Daniel Pinkwater: 5 Novels
- Robert A. Heinlein: Have Space-Suit, Will Travel
- Kathe Koja: Straydog
- Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game
- Joan Aiken, Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- Roald Dahl: Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Susan Palwick: Flying in Place
- Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
- JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit
- Madeline L’Engle: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- John Wyndham: The Chrysalids
- Sue Townsend: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
- Carl Hiassen: Hoot
- Norman Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
- Steven Gould: Jumper
- JD Fitzgerald: The Great Brain
- Michael De Larabetti: The Borribles Trilogy
God, I just keep thinking of more… Twain, Kipling, Little Fuzzy, Frederic Brown, Lemony Snicket, Bunnicula… What will you donate to kids in your area?
(via Dan Gillmor)