Long before the “No Child Left Behind” literacy initiative, a librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, Franklin K. Mathiews, realized the importance of childhood literacy and believed that the first step was to expose children to quality books. Through his passion Children’s Book Week was launched in 1919 amidst the Black Sox scandal, a [...]
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November 20, 2008
Kids Read! Book Drive–Thank You!!
THANK YOU!
Thanks to all of you for your generous donations for this year’s Kids Read! 15th Annual Book Drive. With your help we were able to collect 1641 books–over and above our goal of 1500 children’s books. We will be delivering the donated books to District 214 Community Education Program and Elk Grove Village [...]
