The Big Read and Kids Read Return!

The Big Read and Kids Read committees at nine local libraries have been hard at work planning the 2014 events. We are happy to announce that Philip Caputo's book, The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean, has been selected as The Big Read. Caputo takes an epic road trip across America, asking everyday Americans along the way what unites and divides us.

Go, Go America by Dan Yaccarino has been selected by the Kids Read committee. It's the story of one family's rollicking road trip from state to state, and the curious facts they learn.

The Big Read is an annual reading event, now in its tenth year, that brings together nine local libraries (Clarendon Hills, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Indian Prairie, La Grange, La Grange Park, Lisle, Thomas Ford, and Woodridge) to read and discuss one book. Related programs and discussions will take place in March and April. A complete program guide will be available February 1.