Garth Brooks will participate in the Read Across America
2002 celebration this week as he travels the country reading
to schoolchildren in six cities. Brooks, who serves as the
honorary chairman of the National Education Association, will
make his first stop on the three-day tour in New York on Wednesday
(February 27). The superstar will appear on Good Morning America
where he and the show's hosts, Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson,
will read to an elementary class.
Over the course of the following two days (February 28 and
March 1), Brooks will stop in Los Angeles; Nashville; Tucson,
Arizona; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Clarksdale, Mississippi. In
Nashville, Brooks will read to the first-grade class of Judy
Cummings, the teacher who first introduced the singer to the
reading program at her school in 1991.
"There's nothing better than watching a kid's eyes light
up over a good story," said Brooks. "Reading to
Judy's classes over the years was good preparation for reading
to my own girls. I read to them every night, and it's the
highlight of my day."
Brooks's current single, "Squeeze Me In," a duet
featuring Trisha Yearwood, sits at Number 24 on the Billboard
Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. |
