Read for the Record

Read for the Record

Scores of schools, retailers and other groups throughout Orange County will participate today in the annual Read for the Record Day, an event aimed at encouraging literacy by trying to break the world record for largest shared reading experience. Throughout the day, firefighters, local politicians and others will volunteer by reading to students from Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."

Participating schools in Orange County include Hawes Elementary in Huntington Beach, Turtle Rock Elementary in Irvine, Parkview Elementary in Garden Grove and Valdez Middle School Academy in Placentia. Other participants include retailers like Walmart and Barnes and Noble. Organizers say they hope to break the Guinness record for the most people reading the same book on the same day. Hundreds of thousands of people across the country last year read "Corduroy," a book by Valerie Rene Sheppard.