LA Times Festival of Books
For the first time BookPALS was given a booth at the 3rd Annual LA Times Festival of Books on the USC campus April20-21st. We covered lots of bases! An Interactive Storyline Online booth was set up with three laptops so kids could sample our videos. A few of our dedicated BookPALS read live to enthusiastic SoCal kids on pillows set up on the ground under the tent. We had lots of coloring pages, crayons, and glitter for the kids to enjoy. We were invited to host a segment on the main Hoy stage, too. Sag Foundation’s Storyline Online reader Hector Elizondo read “Somebody Loves You,...
Read MoreDana Marie from Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Expands the Web of BookPals Interest
NYC Bookpals branch took the leap into classrooms for special needs children at Challenge EI in Brooklyn this week. With the fantastic and unheralded performance of Dana Marie, currently on Broadway in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Bookpals landed with several special needs classrooms. This is just the beginning as NYC Bookpals has recently received a grant through the Manhattan Borough Presiden’ts office to help fund training for our volunteers to work with special needs students in the inclusion classroom setting. Challenge Early Intervention Center helps parents and their kids in early...
Read MoreSummer Read Aloud Booklist
Summer Read Aloud Booklist Here are some recommended books for special read-aloud opportunities during the summer. Most of these books were specialy chosen because they are silly or funny. Spotlight Reads: Summer Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World by Mac Barnett and Dan Santat (K-3rd) Some kids are too smart for their own good…and maybe for everybody else’s good. When an overly ambitious little girl builds a humongous robot for her science fair, she fully expects to win first place. What she doesn’t expect is the chaos that follows....
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