The Calgary Reads 2015 project could be easily adapted in Toronto.
Calgary's Well-Travelled Reader Program
Visit Little Free Libraries, stamp your passport, earn a sew-on patch. What a fun idea.
Because there are so many Little Libraries in Toronto, there should be several patches.
Bronze: 10 little library passport stamps
Silver: 25 little library passport stamps
Gold: 50 little library passport stamps
Platinum: 100 little library passport stamps
(I think the Walking Sisters already qualify for platinum! But what a great walking incentive to do it all again to collect the stamps and re-qualify.)
The Well-Travelled Reader program is an initiative of Calgary Reads and Calgary's poet laureate.
I had no idea that cities have poet laureates. So I looked up : Toronto poet laureate. She is Anne Michaels and she is
Toronto's fifth poet laureate.
Here's one of her works posted on the Toronto.ca site:
There is No City that Does Not Dream
By Anne Michaels
There is no city that does not dream
from its foundations. The lost lake
crumbling in the hands of the brickmakers,
the floor of the ravine where light lies broken
with the memory of rivers. All the winters
stored in that geologic
garden. Dinosaurs sleep in the subway
at Bloor and Shaw, a bed of bones
under the rumbling track. The storm
that lit the city with the voltage
of spring, when we were eighteen
on the clean earth. The ferry ride in the rain,
wind wet with wedding music and everything that
sings in the carbon of stone and bone
like a page of love, wind-lost from a hand, unread.
McClelland & Stewart,1999
