Wonderful! NJ.com has added video of Stephen’s reading.

Watch it below:

• About that Sherman Alexie interview …
• Stephen Colbert opens reading weekend for Montclair Public Library Foundation
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• “I’d say throw the book at that kid, but he would just read it”

Yay — I was hoping we’d see a write-up of this back when I heard the rumor that Stephen was involved in the Montclair Public Library Foundation’s Little Read program. And the good folks at NJ.com did one better by adding photos, what fun!

From NJ.com:

Stephen Colbert helps Montclair kick off reading weekend
By Nic Corbett/For The Star-Ledger
October 02, 2009, 4:10PM
MONTCLAIR — A mild-mannered but playful Stephen Colbert clumsily climbed aboard the 7-foot-tall, Seussian armchair in the lobby of Montclair’s main public library.

“Fantastic,” joked the political satirist. “I wish they had a bigger chair.”

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A Montclair resident and father, Colbert read “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf to help kick off the Montclair Public Library Foundation’s weekend-long read-a-thon, The Little Read. Nearly 200 Montclair residents – parents, authors, local politicians, journalists and school officials — signed up to read aloud at one of 11 sites around the township, including a planetarium, an art museum and a fire station.

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Find out more about Stephen’s reading here

You can find out more about The Little Read here: www.littleread.org. I think that second picture of Stephen in the midst of his reading is also really cute.

And, of course, it’s a great thing for those lucky kids. I hope Little Read is a big success — a love of reading is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

• About that Sherman Alexie interview …
• VIDEO: Stephen Colbert reading ‘The Story of Ferdinand’
• New book about Second City: The Second City Unscripted
• “I’d say throw the book at that kid, but he would just read it”