COMMUNITY READ MAIN PAGE

Inviting Parents and
Kids to Join

The Winners Take All Community-Read

A Sample Invitation Letter
(See below for a Sample Confirmation Letter.)

[School Letterhead]

Dear families:
We want to show our young sports fans how much fun reading can be. We also want to get them thinking and talking about important issues in sports and in life. And we want to make this a fun family activity. So we are inviting you and your child to be part of the Winners Take All Community-Read.

Winners Take All by Fred Bowen is a fun-to-read baseball story with lots of suspense to keep everyone turning the pages (... or listening to the audiobook). It also raises some tricky kid-sized moral dilemmas to get everyone thinking and talking.

Here's how our Community-Read works: Kids and grownups will read Winners Take All ahead of time and then come together for a Family Discussion Event at [School] on [DATE]to talk about the book.

How do you sign up? Just fill out the coupon below.

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Join the Winners Take All Community-Read

Yes, we want to sign up. We will read Winners Take All by Fred Bowen and attend the Family Discussion Event at [School] on [Date].

Child's name _____________________________________________

Grownup(s) name(s) _______________________________________

___ We will get the book on our own.

We would like to purchase Winners Take All from the school.

___ Book. Enclose $5. Make check to [Elementary School]
___ CD audiobook read by the author. Great way for families to listen together in car or at home. Enclose $12 . Make check to [Elementary School].

Books will be sent home with the children. Your child's teacher is ____________________________.

A Sample Confirmation Letter

You're on the team!
See you at the
Winners Take All
Family Discussion Event

Place
Date
Time

Refreshments

If you have not already gotten the book, you can order Winners Take All by Fred Bowen through the school (use the coupon below) or from the public library, local bookstores, or the Internet.

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Book Order Form

Child's Name ________________________

Child's Teacher ______________________

We would like to purchase Winners Take All by Fred Bowen from the school.

___ Book. Enclose $5 for each book. Make check out to [Elementary School].
___ CD audiobook read by the author. Great way for families to listen together in car or at home. Enclose $12. Make check to [Elementary School].

Books will be sent home with your child.