Read-a-thon Nets Big

[Via Children's Bookshelf]

Earlier this month, the King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City hosted an eight-hour reading marathon to raise money for Book Wagon, a charity that provides children living in local housing projects with books. Throughout the day, 10 young readers in first through fifth grade sprawled out in the bookstore aisles and read books, raising $650 in book and money donations for the charity in the process (the read-a-thon had a $20 entry fee, and several kids raised more than that). The participants also received some reading prizes, including "Most Trivia Questions Answered," "Most Money Raised" and "Most Pages Read."