Community Reads: Creating Catstronauts

SELCO's Community Reads Grant Program?is a subset of our Community Collaboration Grant. Designed specifically to aid libraries in their community-wide reading efforts, this program is intended to promote reading, research, and discovery through the sharing of perspectives among local residents who read the same book and participate in programs focused on the community selected title. Unlike Community Collaboration Grants, this is not a competitive grant program. It is reviewed by SELCO staff to assure compliance with state statutes. Each library may be awarded up to $1,500 toward its program, with funds able to be used to underwrite the honoraria and travel expenses of featured speakers and expand local advertising/marketing. Catstronauts author, Drew Brockington will gave presentations at the CF elementary school to a K-5 audience about graphic novel design, how he draws inspiration from real life, historical photos for NASA's astronaut program, and how it influenced his Catstronauts book series. In the evening, he gave a presentation at the CF Library focusing on the Catstronauts characters and how he builds the stories around them.