Hope College Presents
Little Read
LAKESHORE 2023
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem, by Amanda Gorman and illustrated by Loren Long, follows a young girl as she leads a cast of characters on a musical journey that helps them to see that together they have the power to make changes — big or small — in the world, their communities and themselves.
What is the Little Read Lakeshore?
Hope College's Little Read Lakeshore creates and fosters a culture where reading matters to children, families and those who support, advocate for and work with children. We bring our Lakeshore community together around a common book and use this shared experience of reading, discussing, and exploring the themes of the book as a springboard to listen to and learn from each other. Our month-long community-wide reading program takes place annually in November. The Little Read Lakeshore is made possible in part by a grant from the Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Ways to Get Involved
Read the book
Our book's topics and themes are timely and relevant.
Attend our events
Our events offer a variety of perspectives, experiences, and angles on the book.
Interact with others
Our goal is that you listen and learn from others as well as sharing your own ideas and experiences.
Respond
Our community becomes stronger when you make positive changes in response to your interactions with the book.
Find The Book
Our 2023 NEA Big Read and Little Read Lakeshore titles will be available at Reader’s World (Holland), Barnes and Noble (Holland), Hope College’s Bookstore, The Bookman (Grand Haven), and Amazon.
Participating libraries will host book giveaways in the fall.
You can also find the titles at participating libraries beginning in June. Book club bags are available at select locations.
- Cook Library (Western Theological Seminary)
- Fennville District Library
- Gary Byker Library of Hudsonville
- Georgetown Township Public Library
- Herrick District Library
- Howard Miller Public Library
- Loutit District Library
- Patmos Library
- Saugatuck-Douglas District Library
- Spring Lake District Library
- Van Wylen Library (Hope College)
Land Acknowledgement
Together we acknowledge that we gather, in West Michigan, on the traditional land of the Peoria, Potawatomi, Odawa, Ojibwe Peoples, past and present.
We honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations.
As a community, we recognize the ever present systemic inequities that stem directly from past wrongdoings. We are grateful for the ways in which stories and words can speak truth and shed insight to these inequalities and wrongdoings, and also provide a way forward towards equality, justice and understanding.
Through these Big Read events and beyond, we commit to respecting and reconciling this long history of injustice, and commit to be better stewards of this land we inhabit.