Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden reads from The Dream Plucker of Perrysport, which is claimed to be the world's largest children's book, to students from Brooklyn's P.S. 23 at Rockefeller Center earlier this month. The 15½-by-20-foot book was created by Carnival Cruise Lines to celebrate the upcoming U.S. debut of its new ship, the Carnival Dream. Many of Carnival’s ships, of course, dock at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook when they’re in New York. Questions? Comments? Sound off to the Editor

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