Though a selection committee tweaks the lists annually, each participant receives Watty Piper’s “The Little Engine That Could” as their first book and Nancy Carlson’s “Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!” as their last.
The appointments come at a critical time for Kentucky’s flagship state university in the wake of Beshear’ social media post last spring saying he was losing confidence in the leadership of UK President Eli Capilouto.
Drawings from eight finalists appear on the ballot from students across the state. Much like during Kentucky’s regular elections, voters may use a paper ballot to mark their choice and return it to a scanner.
The literacy council will take the book mobile out to community events and organizations that support children, where young readers may select books at no charge.
Freedom was not just confined to physical enslavement, but mental enslavement as well, bound in the laws that barred enslaved people from receiving an education in Southern states, writes scholar Rodney Coates.
