Penguin recently announced a new campaign in support of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit organization started by the author of the internationally bestselling novels The Kite Runner
New York, New York (June 22, 2010)—Riverhead Trade Paperbacks, a division of Penguin Group (USA), announced today a campaign to raise money for The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit organization started by the author of the internationally bestselling novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns to aid the people of Afghanistan.
Inspired by readers around the world who have embraced and shared Hosseini’s beloved novels, the Picture a Book Changing Lives campaign invites people to submit up to two still photos of themselves reading or holding a copy of either The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns.
For each eligible photo uploaded to the Hosseini group page of the Penguin Group (USA) website, Riverhead will donate $2.00 (up to a maximum $25,000 donation) to The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. Starting on June 15th and running through August 31st (11:59:59pm ET), people can visit www.penguin.com/community/
hosseini, join the “Hosseini” group, and upload their pictures.
This is pretty awesome campaign. Buy the book and take a picture with it and Penguin will donate. It’s simple and for a great charity. I hope you’ll take a moment to enter!
How great. These two books are both on my keeper shelf. So amazing. Time to pull them out.