First Book - Book Relief - Every Child Deserves a Bedtime 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, they also work on promoting and encouraging children and youth literacy through various program.
Their Aspiring Author Program with Lulu.com is a great way of getting your little author's works published.
First Book Lens Table of Contents
Find out more about the various First Book projects featured in this lens.
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.
Public Service Announcement for First Book
On YouTube
First Book Website
Do You Remember the Magic of Your First Book?
- 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.
Watch the Joy of Experiencing a First Book
On YouTube
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.
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.
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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A Squidoo Lens on the Moomins
Some of the Books that "Got Me Hooked"
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The Moomins
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My mother is from Finland, so I grew up reading stories from Moomin Valley about critters called the Moomins and all of their friends. Moomins love nature and all her creatures. They possess a tolerant and open attitude toward life with a very strong...
A Featured Lens on Children's Author Dr. Seuss
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Dr. Seuss
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There are probably few children and grown-ups who haven't read at least one of the imaginative works of Theodor Geisel. The children's books of Dr. Seuss, such as the Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who and Green Eggs and Ham have become classics for...
A Featured Lens on Horton Hears a Who
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Horton Hears a Who
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Horton the Elephant is featured in two Dr. Seuss books, the first "Horton Hatches an Egg" and the second, "Horton Hears a Who." "Horton Hears a Who", the new feature film produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th...
Click Daily to Fund Books for Children
Support the Literacy Site
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.
Authors Describe their First Book on YouTube
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A Squidoo Lens on Reach Out and Read
Another project encouraging children to read, this one aiming at getting books in the doctor's offices.-
Reach Out and Read - Promoting Early Childhood Literacy
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Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national non-profit organization that promotes early literacy, because growing up healthy means growing up with books. During visits to the pediatrician, children get new books and parents get advice about the importance...
More First Book Photos on Flickr
Books for Kids in San Antonio
First Book has it's own collection of photos on the Flickr Site. Thirty 1st graders received copies of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham from First Book, part of a 20,000-book distribution in San Antonio.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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.
Book Relief: A First Book Initiative
Rebuilding lives...one new book at a time. Within days of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, First Book launched Book Relief — an unprecedented effort to provide five million new books to the children and families who lost so much in the 2005 hurricanes and to organizations rebuilding the Gulf Coast. In the past two years, Book Relief has distributed millions of new books in the five Gulf states and to programs serving evacuees in an additional 16 states.
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Book Relief Efforts - Following Hurricaine Katrina
Rebuilding children's lives...one new book at a time.
- 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.
Another Squidoo Lens on Helping Out in New Orleans
A Personal Account of Helping Following Hurricane Katrina
This lens written by Lensmaster Corey Brown describes his experiences with helping out New Orleans and includes some good suggestions for what you can do today.-
Helping out in New Orleans
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In late January 2007, I was lucky to join up with an awesome group of people heading down to New Orleans to help residents who were hit hard by hurricane Katrina. I had no idea what I was about to experience. We couldn't avoid seeing the...
Support The Children's Literacy Site
Help Fund Free Books for Children with One Click
The Literacy Site is dedicated to funding free books for children, with the motto of "Reach a Child, Teach a Child."With a simple, daily click of the "Fund Books for Kids" button at The Literacy Site, visitors help provide free books to children in need.
The good news is that visitors pay nothing. The distribution of these books are paid for by the site sponsors and accomplished through First Books, their charitable partner.
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
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
Lulu.com and First Books
- 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.
Favorite Children's Books on Amazon
A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories
Amazon Price: (as of 12/18/2009) 
I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed (Charlie and Lola)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/18/2009)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 12/18/2009)
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Charlie and Lola)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/18/2009)
The Cat in the Hat and Other Dr. Seuss Favorites
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 12/18/2009)
A Squidoo Featured Lens on Author Lauren Child
One of my daughter's favorite authors is Lauren Child, creator of Charlie and Lola.-
Lauren Child: Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and More!
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Lauren Child is the British author and illustrator of fabulous children's books for kids of all ages! Charlie and Lola appeals to both preschoolers and tweeners (as it stars one of each), and Clarice Bean is a tweener who can't seem to pay attention,...
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- hlkljgk hlkljgk Dec 3, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
- found this here
reading to your children is so important - great lens
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- clouda9 clouda9 Apr 28, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
- 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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- 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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- KimberlyDawnWells KimberlyDawnWells Aug 20, 2007 @ 9:59 am
- Wow, what a great lens! Thanks for sharing the word about literacy - and through such a creative means.
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Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. We seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education is a lifelong gift th...
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