Star Wars Reads pairs Ahmed Best’s October visits with classroom book support

The literacy campaign offers educator toolkits and an October 9 public signing.

Ahmed Best is the ambassador for this October’s Star Wars Reads campaign, visiting students and readers in Greater New York. Lucasfilm says Disney Publishing and First Book will provide 500 eligible educators with a toolkit and a $100 certificate for the First Book Marketplace; Penguin Random House Children’s Books is

also donating titles. Best will join the Lucasfilm Publishing panel and signing at New York Comic Con on October 9, beginning at 11 a.m. That evening, Forbidden Planet NYC hosts a public author signing from 6–8 p.m. The campaign also supplies printable activities for libraries, classrooms and families. Lucasfilm’s

campaign details. Headline art: Lucasfilm / Disney.

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