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Reach Out and Read Awarded Holiday Impact Prize in New York Times
(The New York Times)By Nicholas Kristof Forget the necktie that will sit in Dad’s closet or the perfume that your sister Sue will soon regift, for I have some better ideas. … Help a child learn to read! Books were my childhood’s magic carpets that lifted me on the lifelong journey that now leads me to write […]
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(National Native News) The Indian Health Service is working to provide tens of thousands of children’s books to Native families across the country. The federal agency gave a $200,000 grant to Reach Out and Read, a national nonprofit that integrates reading into pediatric care. The group will use the money to buy more than 30,000 children’s books. […]
(Live 5 News) Reach Out and Read is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring every child’s cognitive, social, and emotional well-being by incorporating books into pediatric care. Deb LaRoche, a Program Manager at Reach Out and Read South Carolina, shares how this unique program works, where children visiting the doctor’s office receive age-appropriate, beautifully illustrated, […]
(UT Physicians) Young patients and their families at a UTHealth Houston subspecialty clinic will soon experience the benefits of Reach Out and Read Texas, which is part of a national program that incorporates books into pediatric care for children from 6 months to 5 years old. It’s a win-win that helps not only the families at […]
(UW Oshkosh Today) A lifelong love of reading led Kallena Pluemer to spend her final weeks at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh organizing a book drive. The Platteville native and senior accounting major grew up in a home full of books and came from six generations of educators. She remembers the book store being her […]
(NBC29) A program that aims to give children books during doctors visits says it distributed thousands of books in Virginia this year. Reach Out and Read gives free books to every child up to the age of 5. It says this year, books were distributed during 205 visits. Reach Out and Read also expanded to 96 […]