57th Street Books is looking for young readers to form a Young Readers Advisory Board. The board will meet once a month beginning in February or March to discuss new releases, share feedback with booksellers, authors, and publishers, and help strengthen our reading community. Here's how it works:
- Each month, board members will be invited to bring home up to four advance reader copies (ARC's); books sent to us by publishers before they're made available to the general public. (Yes, this is as cool as it sounds.) As a board member, you will be asked to submit a written review of at least one ARC by the date of our next meeting.
- Reviews will be shared among the group and with publishers, authors, and the 57th Street Books community on in-store displays, across our social media, and in this very newsletter.
- Each meeting will last between 30-45 minutes in the afternoon (exact time TBD) on the last Sunday of every month but December (unless that date falls on a holiday weekend, in which case we will move to the Sunday prior). Board members are expected to attend no fewer than five meetings per year.
Interested? Great! Apply by sending the following to kidsbooks@semcoop.com by January 31, 2019:
- Name and age (recommended ages 8 and up):
- Parent/Guardian name and contact information:
- The name of your favorite author and/or book and a brief paragraph about what makes them/it special:
- The names of the last five books you've read:
- Additional questions or comments:
