Is there a Pizza Hut "Book It!" for Grown-Ups?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March 8, 2017 12:58pm CST
Since the mid 1980's, Pizza Hut has offered the Book It! program---an arrangement whereby students read books in order to fill out forms to exchange for free personal-pan pizzas.
For the same reason that "reading aloud to children" is one of the best ways to teach them to read (a principle akin to "monkey-see, monkey-do" 
), I think children would be even-more-encouraged to join in (and printed news would experience kind of a 'rebirth' ... or at least 'the industry wouldn't be such a loss anymore') if adults received discounts-&-freebies in exchange for 'newspapers after they read them' or 'news-summaries' (obviously a bigger discount for the former than the latter).
Public libraries & schools might also work out deals for teachers & volunteers who read books with children! Sound good? What else can we do to keep children reading all their lives?
), I think children would be even-more-encouraged to join in (and printed news would experience kind of a 'rebirth' ... or at least 'the industry wouldn't be such a loss anymore') if adults received discounts-&-freebies in exchange for 'newspapers after they read them' or 'news-summaries' (obviously a bigger discount for the former than the latter).
Public libraries & schools might also work out deals for teachers & volunteers who read books with children! Sound good? What else can we do to keep children reading all their lives?
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@librarygeek1980 (3137)
• United States
9 Mar 17
I'm a grown up, and I still wanna be part of this!! I used to get these every month, they still do this program for the kids here
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
13 Mar 17
And they encourage grown-ups (whether we have kids or not) to add a donation to Book It! to our online order (which is one way we can feel 'involved' ... still, a discount on our pizzas wouldn't hurt 
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