Record Readers

Get Set and Read!

‘The time is 11:25. Everyone should begin reading aloud.’

So said the intercom voice at Mandarin Middle School in Jacksonville, Florida, and so said similar voices all across the Sunshine State, as more than 200,000 students attempted to set a new Guinness World Record last year for “Most People Reading Aloud Simultaneously in Multiple Locations.” The event was the brainchild of Mandarin teacher Jane Feber, who read alongside her students and told her local paper, “Wasn’t it just cool being here?”