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Comic Book Classroom Partners with City of Denver for Youth One Book, One Denver

CBC to Provide Supporting Curricula for Study of this Summer’s Book

DENVER – April 22, 2014 – Comic Book Classroom (CBC), a Denver-based nonprofit designed to help promote literacy through pop culture—including its popular Denver Comic Con and Literary Conference (DCC), today announced it has partnered with the City of Denver to provide supporting curricula for this summer’s Youth One Book, One Denver program. The 2014 book will be announced on June 17, 2014.

CBC will provide various curricula ranging from one-day studies involving critical thinking and the arts, to a multi-week curriculum in which students will create an entire comic book around subject matter and characters from the Youth One Book, One Denver program.

“CBC has been putting the pieces in place for a number of months so that we can execute on partnerships such as this one with Youth One Book, One Denver,” said Illya Kowalchuk, CBC’s director of education. “This is the first in a number of programs we’ll be rolling out to engage kids with pop culture on a large scale.”

Youth One Book, One Denver, designed to engage kids in literacy and support summer reading, reaches approximately 2,500 kids between the ages of nine and 12. The youth program modeled after Denver's citywide book club, One Book, One Denver, created to build community and stimulate reading.

On June 17^th the book will be announced on the City of Denver’s website and on Comic Book Classroom’s digital media.

About Denver Comic Con

Entering its third year, the Denver Comic Con (DCC) is Denver’s premiere pop-culture fan experience, covering the worlds of comic books, film, and related media. It is also an extension of and an awareness builder for its parent organization, Comic Book Classroom. For the latest news and information, visit www.denvercomiccon.com.

About Comic Book Classroom

Comic Book Classroom (CBC) is a charitable organization that educates through alternative approaches to literacy, learning, and character development. CBC creates programs for underserved students, schools and communities via comic books, graphic novels, and related media. CBC is the organizer and producer for the DCC. www.comicbookclassroom.org.

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EDITOR'S HYPERBOLE NOTE: I really love to see these press releases announcing the various initatives that Comic Book Classroom is doing to live up to their name. Youth One Book, One Denver is a celebration of a chosen book for that year and it is supported by artwork inspired by the book, lesson plans, and other things. Denver Comic Con is June 13 - 15th, 2014. The Tuesday afterwards will be when the book for this year will be announced. I expect to see a lot of information about Youth One Book, One Denver at Denver Comic 2014. The 2012 Youth One Book, One Denver program served over 996 students, distributed 941 books, and trained over 40 staff and I look forward to the release of the 2013 statistics! Youth One Book, One Denver is based on the One Book, One Denver program that has existed for over a decade.

Previous Youth One Book, One Denver choices were as follows.

Holes by Louis Sachar - 2012 Youth One Book, One Denver Pick!
The Capitol Ghost Mystery by Michelle M. Barone - 2013 Youth One Book, One Denver Pick!

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