Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Center For the Book

The Center for the Book's vision is that every Virginian will have access to books and reading and to the power that books and reading provide to shape and inform personal and civic life.

The Center for the Book promotes books, reading, literacy, and the literary life of Virginia through the programs listed below.

As an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, the VFH Center for the Book works within a network of 50 state-center affiliates.

Featured Program

Letters About LiteratureThe Big Read - All Virginians Are Invited to Read A Lesson Before Dying

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.

Programs

Festival of the Book:
a five-day festival held annually in March

The Big Read:
an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.

Arts of the Book Center:
community programs and a working studio for the support of traditional and experimental work in book arts, printmaking, and graphic media

VABooks!:
monthly book recommendation column

Motheread ® and Fatheread ®:
literacy program using children's literature to increase literacy and parenting skills

Letters About Literature:
writing competition for students in grades 4-12, with teacher guide