Hawaii It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane — It’s A Hilo Man On A Mission To Get Kids Reading …. At Mike Sado’s Enjoy Comics, good grades can get you a discount and several other incentives promote literacy.
Mike Sado, owner of Enjoy Comics at Prince Kuhio Plaza in Hilo, fights every day to build a better future, much like the superheroes in the books he sells. He’s creating not just a place for collectors and fans to buy comics and related merchandise, but a community with reading at its core.
Sado has offered a youth literacy program since opening the comic book store in 2015. The program gets kids to read by offering those 17 and younger with a Hawaii library card a 10% discount on all purchases of regularly-priced reading materials, including comics, graphic novels, trade paperbacks and hard-cover books.
Keiki also can receive store credit based on their grades. Students who get straight A’s or the equivalent can receive $10 in store credit and students who get B’s or better, or the equivalent, get a $5 credit. That credit can be used toward any merchandise in the store. Students have 30 days after receiving their report card each quarter to bring it into the store, along with their library card, to take advantage of the offer.
