(The Portland Forecaster)

Raising Readers, which has distributed nearly 4 million free books to young Maine children over the past 24 years, will turn its work over to a national nonprofit with the same mission that is expanding into the state.…

(Aspirus Health)

The pediatrics team at Aspirus Plover Hospital & Clinic is passionate about the benefits of reading to infants and children.

“The families we care for trust us to guide them on all aspects of their child’s health and development,” said Jolyne Check-Ostrowski APNP, a pediatric nurse practitioner at Aspirus Plover Clinic. “That’s…

(Fronteras Desk)

The Indian Health Service has awarded $200,000 grant to the nonprofit Reach Out and Read to buy more than 30,000 children’s books for clinics nationwide.

Sites in New Mexico, Oklahoma and South Dakota will benefit from this funding, but nearly a fourth of the 45 IHS clinics are located in Arizona. …

(SuperTalk Mississippi)

Marty Martinez (CEO – Reach Out and Read), Dr. Susan Buttross (UMMC), and Susan Garrard (President/CEO – MS Children’s Museum) join the discussion to give some insight into the Reach Out and Read partnership.

Watch the interview above or on SuperTalk Mississippi’s YouTube channel here.…

(Casper Star Tribune)

The Indian Health Services site at Fort Washakie, along with 44 other IHS sites, will receive children’s books to distribute free of charge at well-child visits.

Reach out and Read, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing books to pediatric care and inspiring families to read aloud together, received $200,000 from Indian Health Services to distribute children’s literature on tribal and native sites for a year.…