In four days my new book comes out. I have been trying for a while to come up with a catchy blog post to announce it, but the truth is, my heart is heavy with the images of hatred coming from Virginia. With the calls to action, yet the fear so many educators have when it comes to teaching against hate in our classrooms. It seems silly for me to be excited about a book. But perhaps that is life in a nutshell, we are conflicted with our emotions and driven toward change. Good can exist along evil. Happiness can exist along hatred. Even as we reel with the news that unfolds around us, we are preparing for our first days, or perhaps we are already in them, getting to know this new great group of kids.
I wrote Passionate Readers as a way to give my students’ voices a bigger platform. To once again share the common sense advice that they have bestowed upon me and anyone else that would listen as I asked them how we could make reading suck less. (Student words…) I wrote this book not as a literacy expert, but as one who is on a journey to become better at teaching reading, at creating reading communities, at helping students hate it less or even love it more. As someone who was faced with 45 minutes for all English Language Arts and faced with the daunting task of getting vocal resistant readers to give books a chance. I filled this book with the research that I stand upon, but also the practical day-to-day that we all crave when we seek inspiration. I filled this book with every small thing that has worked and also the things that haven’t. I filled it with all of me and now, the world awaits. And it is terrifying, yet exhilarating to see it be released.
So in honor of the release date of Passionate Readers, I would like to give a copy away. Once I have a copy myself, I will mail it to one winner and hope that it becomes a book that is worth your time. All you have to do to enter to win is leave a comment on this post. The contest will run until August 17th at midnight, the day the book comes out.
PS: If you would like to order your own copy, please go here
If you like what you read here, consider reading my newest book, Passionate Readers – The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child, out August 2017. This book focuses on the five keys we can implement into any reading community to strengthen student reading experiences, even within the 45 minute English block. If you are looking for solutions and ideas for how to re-engage all of your students consider reading my very first book Passionate Learners – How to Engage and Empower Your Students. Also, if you are wondering where I will be in the coming year or would like to have me speak, please see this page.
Pernille Ripp 
We would love to read your ideas in PASSIONATE READERS!
Thanks for all you do as an educator, I appreciate and try to read all you share about teaching. Keep up the great work!
Looking forward to reading this! ❤️️
I know this book will be as helpful to me as your last. Congrats, my friend!
Thank you for being there for teachers when they can seem to find the right words.
Just ordered my own copy, but would love to win one for a friend. Love your ideas and your blog!
Cannot WAIT to read this book! Your session at nErDcamp was so inspiring.
I’d love to win a copy of your new book! Hope you have a great first day of school!
Passionate reading is contagious.
I can’t wait to read your book from cover to cover as soon as I get it!
Can’t wait to read!
I am looking forward to reading your words of inspiration. Thank you for the opportunity.
You are an inspiration to educators everywhere! Can’t wait to read your new book!
Thank you for your passion, conviction and focus on empowering children. Your words inspire so many of us to advocate passionately for our students.
I have been looking forward to this book’s release since I heard you speak in Ames earlier this summer….I would love to win a copy!
Would love to read this book! I was looking to create passionate readers!
Your work is inspiring!
I’d love to win a copy of your book! Thanks for all you do to help and encourage your fellow educators! It is seen and appreciated so much!
I enjoyed Passionate Learners immensely and used it to give myself permission to implement flexible seating in my classroom. I am looking forward to pulling some pearls of wisdom from this work. I’m always looking for ways to make my Reading Workshop more powerful, more relevant, and more efficient.
You have every right to be excited about the release of your book. Your words will inspire the reader to do more, be more. I look forward to reading your thoughts.
You are such an inspiration, and I envy your students! I can’t wait to read your latest book.
I know this will not only be helpful to me as a lead learner, but it will be helpful to my colleagues because I will share it with them. Most importantly, the students who are positively impacted by the ideas of the adults who read it will benefit the most. Congratulations and thank you for sharing!
I love seeing you at nerdcampmi and would love to win a copy of your newest book!!
Congratulations! Would LOVE to read this and look forward to it once it comes out!
My goal this year is to get my kiddos to become passionate readers! I would love to win this book!
Yes please! (If we are allowed to win all the way over here in NZ?)
Looking forward to reading this! I love your blog posts and Passionate Learners!
Reading prevents ignorance. Reading provides empathy. How wonderful that your book comes out at the perfect time. I can’t wait to read it. I loved your book, Passionate Learners.
I would love to win a book! Your blog posts are so inspirational and motivate me to be a better literacy teacher and a more compassionate person!
We can help change through reading!
Pernille, thank you so much for the work that you do. You inspire me to be a better teacher!
As a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia I appreciate your sensitivity to the hatred and despair that descended on my hometown this week-end. I plan to use several of the books that you recommended for inspiring hope with my young learners when school starts next week. Thank you for sharing your ideas and experiences. I look forward to reading your new book.
Would love to win and share with others. I’ve been looking forward to your book release all summer.
God bless you for all you do! Would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE a copy of your new book!!!
I would love to read your new book.
So grateful to my friend Jenni for encouraging me to follow you on twitter. Your tweets and blog posts are aligned so perfectly with all that I value in literacy and the dear children we teach. Thank you for your voice on social media. Know that you are making a difference…
I follow your writing, blogging, speaking, and tweeting. I would like a copy of your new book to read myself and to share with enter teachers.
I’ve been waiting all summer for this book! Keep fighting the good fight, Pernille. So much respect and admiration for you.
So inspired by how you use your passion to positively impact educational change. Your voice is needed and valued, especially now. I look forward to reading this new book. Congratulations!
I read to about 600 kids every week, and I help them find books. I’d love to have this book to give me more ideas.
You have inspired me in so many ways! Because of you my class is so much richer! I would love to read more of your ideas that will help me continue to make my classroom a fantastic place for students to learn!
I would love to win a copy! It is a personal goal of mine to encourage all of my students to have joy in reading.
Loved your first book, am excited to read this one too!
First of all, congratulations! Secondly, I would love to win a copy of your book. I am so inspired by all that you do for your students and for other educators. Thank you!
I loved hearing you speak in June and I can’t wait to read your new book!
Passionate Learners has changed the way I view teaching, and I can’t wait to read Passionate Readers!
Can’t wait to read it! Your writing, along with Donalyn Miller, has changed the focus of my ELA classroom. Thank you!
Pernille! I think in these times of challenge we need, especially, to give our students a voice. We need to help them craft a better future. Thank you for your dedication to our journey.
Can’t wait to dig into the new book, Pernille!
I can’t wait to read this!