Get Caught Reading, a year-round campaign to promote the fun of reading books by young people, is very pleased to announce the simultaneous release of 10 posters of authors, teachers, journalists, and activists.

Managed by Every Child a Reader, an award-winning literacy charity, Get Caught Reading provides teachers, librarians, booksellers, and reading advocates with free bulletin-board-sized posters of inspiring people reading a favorite book.

Along with the 9 posters this spring and the 10 posters earlier this fall, we hope you similarly enjoy these 12 new posters of dynamic authors, teachers, and activists.

Rene Alegria is the CEO of MundoNow, one of the largest independently owned Latino digital media platforms in the US. Responsible for over 30 Emmy Awards, he is asked to speak on the diversification of media and technology throughout the country. Born and raised in Tucson, AZ, and a life-long book lover, Alegria launched Rayo in 2000, the first Latino book imprint from a major publishing house. During his time there, Alegria helped shepherd hundreds of Latino authors into print.

Rene’s is the first Dual-Language Get Caught Reading Poster:

See the English-language poster

See the Spanish-language poster

Seema Yasmin is a medical doctor, author, and Emmy award-winning journalist. Her books paint vivid pictures about ourselves and how we interact with the world around us and include What the Fact?!: Finding the Truth in All the Noise; Muslim Women are Everything; the poetry collection, If God Is a Virus; The ABCs of Queer History, and more. Please visit SeemaYasmin.com.

Margarita Engle is an award-winning author, poet, and journalist born in Pasadena, CA, to a Cuban mother and an American father. Her works have brought to life fascinating characters and history in The Firefly Letters, The Surrender Tree, Wild Dreamers, The Sculptors of Light: Poems About Cuban Women Artists, and more. Engle served as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate, was a professor of agronomy, and lives in California.

Leslie Gentile’s novel, Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer, won the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize and the Jean Little First-Novel Award. She is a musician in The Leslie Gentile Band and lives on Vancouver Island on the traditional territory of the WSÁNEĆ people. Though not connected with a specific nation, Leslie is of Indigenous and settler heritage, and has Salish, Tuscarora, and Scottish ancestry.

Heydi Acuña, born in Bogotá, Colombia, spent her childhood caring for animals living in the streets. Just 10 years after immigrating to America as a refugee, Heydi and her husband Nash started Mercy Full Project in Tampa, Florida. Heydi knows reading her story to other children will teach them the value of caring for animals. She hopes that through this book and many others, everyone will learn to give animals the chance to live safe and happy lives.

Cheyenne M. Stone is a Paiute who lives on the Big Pine Reservation in Inyo County, California, and she is very active in tribal affairs. She practices and teaches jewelry making, basket weaving, and holistic medicine. Additionally, she is an ethnographer who is involved in K-12 education, and she enjoys writing for children.

Shawn Amos, as a kid, award-winning author, helped his dad, Wally “Famous” Amos, open the world’s first chocolate chip cookie store on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Formosa Avenue in Hollywood, California. Shawn is now a dad himself to three great kids, and he sings and plays harmonica as blues singer “The Reverend Shawn Amos.” Cookies & Milk is his first novel. He invites you to visit him online at ShawnAmos.com/author.

Supriya Kelkar grew up in the Midwest, where she learned Hindi as a child by watching three Hindi movies a week. Supriya is a screenwriter and an international bestselling, award-winning author of middle-grade novels, like American as Paneer Pie and That Thing about Bollywood; the author-illustrator of And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, and Resistance, and the illustrator of several picture books for kids, including My Diwali Light (written by Raakhee Mirchandani). She invites you to visit her at supriyakelkar.com.

Tonya Simpson is a member of Pasqua First Nation and resides in Pigeon Lake, Alberta with her family. Though she is an anthropologist by day, her true love is the written word. Inspired by landscapes and spirituality, Tonya loves to explore what it means to be human through stories. She has written Forever Our Home and This Land Is a Lullaby for wee ones.

Jackson and Irwin: Follow Jackson & his imaginary best friend/plush thylacine Irwin around the world, from the rainforests of Puerto Rico to the Arctic Circle, where he will discover all about the habits and habitats of Blue-Tailed Ground Lizards, African Wild Dogs, Polar Bears, and more! Let the adventure begin!

Otto, Nan, & the Mummy Cat: Otto and Nan accidentally free a mummy cat from a pharaoh’s chamber! Their resulting adventures have them exploring the city, learning historical facts, saving each other from danger, and discovering truths about life in this fun flip graphic novel. Written by real-life siblings Kim Shearer and Chas! Pangburn, with art by Nic Touris.

Mac the Dog: I’m Mac and I live in Lake Placid, New York. You might know Lake Placid from the 1980 Winter Olympics and the “Miracle on Ice.” It’s also been home to 25 Ironman races. The swimming is my favorite part and I often train with the athletes. Danielle Lewis won the Ironman this year. I love to swim. Go, Dog, Go is a good book, but I’d like to see Swim, Dog, Swim. Or Sleep, Dog, Sleep. I am a happy dog.

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Over two hundred 8 ½” x 11” posters are available free to teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents. The program was relaunched in 2018 thanks to a grant from KPMG and a poster featuring Olympic gold medal gymnast Laurie Hernandez. In 2019 and 2020, posters featuring bestselling authors Kate DiCamillo, Raj Halder, and Raakhee Mirchandani, plus the animated character Phoebe and her Unicorn were made available. Backlist posters include Alicia Keys, Neil Gaiman, Alex Morgan, Horton (Horton Hears a Who!), and Olivia (Olivia book series).

Up to 10 different posters can be ordered on the order form at www.GetCaughtReading.org.

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About Get Caught Reading
A nationwide, year-round campaign to promote the fun of reading books for all ages. Launched in 1999 by the Association of American Publishers and now managed by Every Child a Reader. Get Caught Reading provides teachers and librarians with bulletin board-sized posters of authors, athletes, media stars, and beloved book characters caught reading a favorite!