Life of a Reader
If dinosaurs inspire kids to read, then I—and David Vozar, my creative partner at Scholastic Book Clubs— want to be dinosaurs.
I Don’t Want to Be a Dinosaur … or Do I? by Judy Newman I received the email I have been dreading. An invitation—and a request for my sweatshirt size—to the Scholastic Annual Dinosaur Luncheon. I love my job. And I truly appreciate that I have been working at Scholastic, in the Book Clubs Division, since 1993. But I have always been skeptical of becoming a member of this very special club, which is open only to Scholastic staff who have been with the company for 25 years! 40
Story Monsters Ink | November 2018 | StoryMonsters.com
I don’t have anything against dinosaurs, but I never understood why any active, healthy, stillworking person would want to be a member of club named for an extinct species. I do love the fact that Scholastic celebrates employees with long tenure. It was just the association with extinction—being a dinosaur—that got to me. This all got me thinking … since dinosaurs play such an outsize role and are such vibrant and hugely popular characters in all kinds of children’s books—both
