Books in the Wild
Happy Friday! Thanks to all of our readers and Twitter followers who sent us pictures of books in their natural habitat: with kids, booksellers, animals, or just proudly on display. As you’ll see, this is the week of the cat! Click here and here to view previous Books in the Wild posts.
“The bag monster”, pictured here, is a leftover publicity Halloween costume from the RHCB party and he thinks Graffiti Moon is the perfect Valentine’s Day book!

“There’s always enough light in the garden to get a little reading done” from our very own Kate
“Stinkyboy on a lazy Sunday afternoon” sent to us by @ColleenLindsay
“This is Steinbeck and he has great taste in books” sent to us by @MissLiberty
“The cat is a book lover” sent to us by Tera S.
And a good look at Tera’s enviable bookshelf
Our New York colleagues celebrate the Caldecott Award win for A Ball For Daisy by Chris Raschka with this beautiful cake!
Erin’s sweet kids handle their own bedtime stories
Deanna was surprised to be at a prospective school for her twins and see these favorite RHC books on display at the library!
We run this post monthly and we welcome your contributions, so if you have any fun book-themed photos you’d like us to share, please email them to us at randomactsofreading at gmail dot com, or tweet them to us at @RAoReading using the hashtag “#booksinthewild.


Love the photos! There’s a statue of a girl reading in the park in our neighborhood that I need to take a photo of.
Love this! I’m especially in love with of Tera S’s beautiful bookshelf!
I meant in love “with,” but alas, that’s the power of the bookshelf!
I love these posts! It’s so much fun seeing books in the wild.