Celebrate National Library Week at UF with the Smathers Libraries' 2011 Read-A-Thon

Tuesday, April 5th is Children's Literature Day. From 10:00-12:00 on, we will need four readers per time slot. From 10:00-11:00, 3-5 year-olds will be read to
and from 11:00-12:00 second grade children will be read to.

Read-A-Thon Schedule

April 4
OPEN TOPIC

April 5
Children's Literature
10am-12pm
April 6
OPEN TOPIC
10:00-10:10 Begins at 11:00

Caryl McKeller will read
There's an Alligator under my Bed
by Mercer Mayer

Rachel Schipper will read
Rory: the Adventures of a Lion Cub
by Gillian Cullinan and Patsy Smith Roberts

Chris Wellswill read
Parts by Tedd Arnold

Storm Roberts will read
There is a Bird on Your Head!
by Mo Willems

Begins at 11:00
10:15-10:25 Begins at 11:00 Peter Malanchuk will read
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
by William Steig

Iona Malanchuk will read
The Araboolies of Liberty Street
by Sam Swope

Jennifer Coenen will read
Otto by Steven Kroll


Brenda Harden will read
The King of Thing and the Cranberry Clown
by John Callahan
Begins at 11:00
10:30-10:40 Begins at 11:00 Aimee Barrett will read
A Frog in the Bog by Karma Wilson

Pam Shamel will read
The Way I Feel by Janan Cain

Cindy Craig will read
Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood
by Mike Artell

April Hines will read
The Boy Who Was Raised By Librarians
by Carla Morris
Begins at 11:00
10:45-10:55 Begins at 11:00

Cindy Craig will read
Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester

Cleopatre Thelus will read
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
by Dr. Seuss

Dung Nguyen will read
The Lion Who Wouldn't Brush His Teeth
by Mike Peele

Jodi Arroyo will read
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
by Laura Numeroff

Begins at 11:00
11:00-11:10 Rachel Schipper (and puppet friends) will read
The Mitton by Jan Brett
Jana Ronan will read
When Sophie Gets Really Really Angry
by Molly Bang


Krissy Wilson will read from
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Jacqueline Zahralban
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein

Maddy Snyder
Don't Let the Pideon Drive the Bus!
by Mo Willems
Jennifer Coenen will read from
Paradise Valley by Robyn Carr
11:15-11:25 Elaine Needelman will read from
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Jane Austin and
Seth Grahame-Smith
Gail Carr will read
Five Little Chicks by Nancy Tafuri

Michelle Rogovin
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Lauren Vivar
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
by Doreen Cronin

Valentina Contesse will read
A Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle

David B. Maas will read
various poems
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
11:30-11:40 Jeana Mastrodicasa will read
from a book by David Sedaris

Debbie Lewis will read
Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard

Ben Walker will read
King Puck by Michael Garland

Rachel Christie will read
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka

Angela Mott will read
Scarlett Angelina Wolverton-Manning
by Jacqueline K. Ogburn

Naomi Young will read
selections from Miss Manners
by Judith Martin
11:45-11:55 Kevin Knudson will read
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
Be Astengo will read
Caps for Sale and Bark George
by Esphyr Slobodkina and Jules Feiffer

Chris Cook will read
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Micah Bolen will read
The Runaway Pancake by John Lithgow

Shira Megerman will read
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
by Philip Stead
Shira Megerman will read
Selections from work by
Jane Austen
12:00-12:10 Sign Up
Kelly McAdams will read from
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer

12:15-12:25 Corbin Schneider will read from
The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom)
by Friedrich Nietzsche

Elaine Needelman will read from
I Drink for a Reason
by David Cross
12:30-12:40 Sign Up

Jessica Nielsen Babapour will read from
A Yippie Manifesto
by Jerry Rubin

12:45-12:55 Kyle R. Mitchell will read from
The Areas of My Expertise
by John Hodgman

Wendy Thornton will read from
Margaret and the Two Inch Tomato
by Wendy Thornton
1:00-1:10 Ken Solomon will read from
Essays
by P.G. Wodehouse

Asmaa Ghonim will read from
The Apocalypse Reader
by Justin Taylor
1:15-1:25 Sign Up Rose Moon will read from
It's a Book by Lane Smith
1:30-1:40 Chris Machen will read
Cowboy Poetry
Angela Mott will read from
Twilight and Midnight Sun
by Stephanie Myers
1:45-1:55 Sign Up Eric Matzner will read from
Moonwalking with Einstein
by Jason Foer