The First Book Story
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Remember the Magic of Your First Book
Can you remember the magic of owning your first book? This is the mission of First Book, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children the opportunity to read and own their own first new book.
First Book provide an ongoing supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring, and family literacy programs.
In addition, First Book works on promoting and encouraging children and youth literacy through various program.
Most recently First Book helped Oprah wrap up her final season. As part of the final season audience members helped donate 25,000 books to children in need.
Hear The Story of First Book
From FirstBook a collection of their favorite authors and supporters sat down to help tell the First Book story.
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First Book Website
Do You Remember the Magic of Your First Book?
Find out more about First Book by visiting their website.
- First Book - Website
- The website for First Book, the site rekindling the magic in reading.
- Corporate Partners
- Take a look at some of the corporations that have partnered with First Book to help in their mission of getting books to children.
- First Book | National Book Bank
- The First Book National Book Bank (FBNBB) provides new books to children from
low-income families across the country using generous donations from
children's book publishers, service donors, and volunteers.
Important!
Reading is a Gift
Reading is a joy and a gift that you are offering to our children.
Your gift cannot be truly measured in dollars and cents but will be counted in the lives that you have touched.
Head Start of Greater Dallas, Inc.
Your gift cannot be truly measured in dollars and cents but will be counted in the lives that you have touched.
Head Start of Greater Dallas, Inc.
Every Child Deserves a Bedtime Story
Support the First Book Program
Bedtime Stories are a ritual for us with either myself or my husband reading a story to the girls on many nights to help them calm down enough to go to sleep.Books are one of the few things I don't scrimp on with my daughters. They also get many as presents from their grandmothers - one a former preschool teacher, the other a current librarian.
I can't imagine not having the books to read to my girls, or the experience of teaching them about reading, exploring, thinking and learning.
The "Every Child Deserves a Bedtime Story" Program is one of the primary reasons I had for developing this lens to get the word out about the First Books Program.
Watch the Joy of Experiencing a First Book
On YouTube
Flickr Photos from First Book
BookExpo America 2007
First Book has it's own collection of photos on the Flickr Site. This collection is from the BookExpo America, an annual convention for for publishers, booksellers, librarians, and other people who deal with books.
Another Public Service Announcement
On YouTube
"What Book Got You Hooked?" Campaign
Celebrating 50 million Books Given Away
Find out more about the First Book campaign, "What Book Got You Hooked?"- What Book Got You Hooked?
- This summer First Book to celebrate its 50 millionth book given to children in need they asked people to tell us what book got you hooked on reading.
- What Book Got You Hooked? - Author & Celebrity Favorites
- Take a look at an extensive listing of the books that got celebrities and authors hooked and why.
What Book Got You Hooked? Books
Do You Remember the Magic of Your First Book?
This is a list of magical first books. I have included ones that I remember reading as a child and ones my husband remembers reading.
I read a lot of the Moomin Books because my Mom is from Finland.
Vote for your favorite, if it's not here add your own to the list.
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Horton Hears A Who! by Dr. Seuss
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A Fly Went By by Mike McClintock, Fritz Siebel
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Some of the Books that "Got Me Hooked"
Authors Describe their First Book on YouTube
A collection of videos featuring noted children's authors and first book supporters from Book Expo.
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Important!
A Library is a Necessity of Life
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Book Relief and Book Relief Efforts
Imagine a World Without Books
Imagine a world without books. This was the world following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.The Book Relief Initiative is aiming to put books back into the hands of the children impacted by Hurricane Katrina because:
- Books spark the imagination
Books nurture minds
Books open doors
Books restore hope
Books bring joy
Watch the Inspirational Video Clip about the Book Relief Efforts to rebuild the lives of children through books in the next module.
Book Relief: A First Book Initiative
Rebuilding lives...one new book at a time.
All about the efforts by First Book to rebuild the lives of children by pledging to provide five million new books to the children and families.
Book Relief Efforts - Following Hurricaine Katrina
Rebuilding children's lives...one new book at a time.
Read more about the Book Relief Efforts undertaken by First Book Following the Hurricane Katrina devastation.
- Book Relief - A Flash Presentation
- A inspiring flash presentation about the Book Relief Efforts following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
- Book Relief - A First Book Initiative
- More information about Book Relief is available on their website.
- Book Relief Efforts in the Blog
- Book Relief Efforts Posts in the First Book Blog.
Important!
Cannot Live Without Books
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Favorite Children's Books on Amazon
A collection of favorite Children's books on Amazon.
Donate to First Book
You can donate directly to First Book though this lens.
First Book provides new books to children in need, addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy—access to books. Since 1992, First Book has distributed over 60 million free and low-cost books in thousands of communities.
The Latest from the First Book Blog
Other Squidoo Lenses on Children's Books
These lenses offer more information and book resources on helping your children become readers.
Aspiring Authors
Lulu.com's Aspiring Authors Supports Youth Literacy
Aspiring Authors is a joint program from the publishers Lulu.com and First books.This youth publishing program was created to provide young aspiring authors to have the opportunity to put their creativity to use and publish a book.
It also gives children the thrilling experience of being a published author.
Aspiring Authors Websites
Lulu.com and First Books
Find out More about Aspiring Authors by visiting their websites the Lulu.com and First books websites.
- Lulu.com presents Aspiring Authors
- Lulu.com lets you publish and sell print-on-demand books and e-books, online music and images, custom calendars and books. Free self-publishing.
- Aspiring Authors: Making of Sunday Morning in Pancakeland
- A video about the Aspiring Authors is a youth publishing program designed to provide children with the opportunity to put their creativity to use.
- Aspiring Authors - PDF Flyer
- A printable PDF flyer for teachers about the Aspiring Authors program.
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- found this here
reading to your children is so important - great lens
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- Wonderful lens with an even more wonderful purpose. I loved reading to my boys when they were younger...I became an actress with the book as my script :)
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- Great lens. More interesting and informative. I enjoyed alot to go through your lens and would like this lens. Good job and keep it up. It is my pleasure to share with you an informative site about Self Publishing on Self Publishing Please step into this site to surf more information about Basic Books Publishing, Book Guild Publishing, Book Writing Publishing and more and more types of Self Publishing.
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- I really enjoy your lens. I am a resident service coordinator running a after-school learning center for affordable housing students. We strive to empower the students and make education fun.
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- Wow, what a great lens! Thanks for sharing the word about literacy - and through such a creative means.
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There isn't much you can get these days that does some good and is at no cost to you, the Literacy Site from the GreaterGood Network lets you do good for free.Simply by visiting the Literacy Site and clicking on their link daily, you can help to fund books for children.
Make a bookmark, sign up for their email alerts and remember to take a few moments out of your day to fund books for children, sponsored by First Books.
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