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The holidays are fast approaching. You and your family can make them a bit brighter for kids in need. Choose from four great ways to get your family excited and engaged in helping others.
1. Read eBooks for free as a family on www.wegivebooks.org. For every book you read online, a brand new book will be provided to a child in need.
2. Encourage your kids to donate their allowance in November and December to First Book or a cause of their choice. Help them understand that not all kids will have presents to open this holiday season.
3. Host a Virtual Book Drive and invite others to join you. Every $2.50 raised can provide a book to a child in need.
4. Together with your kids, select an item from the First Book Gift Catalog to give to a loved one for the holidays.
The post Four Ways to Encourage the Spirit of Giving appeared first on First Book Blog.
By: Julia Hornaday,
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We can’t keep it a secret any longer!
As of today, We Give Books has a new home at First Book. The online platform, which features nearly 300 digitally-optimized children’s books, enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in 
the hands of kids in need, simply by reading online.
This generous gift to First Book comes from The Pearson Foundation along with $1.3M in cash to support We Give Books and help First Book deliver new online programs and services to our growing network of 140,000 classrooms and community organizations serving children in need.
You can get involved too!
Children, parents, caretakers and educators can visit www.wegivebooks.org and select books to read together. Reading on the site also triggers donations of new books to programs and classrooms serving children in need. Launched just four years ago, We Give Books has helped deliver more than 3.25 million books to children around the world.
We could not be more thankful to the Pearson Foundation or more thrilled for We Give Books to join the First Book family, helping us provide even more critical reading opportunities to young people across the United States and around the world.
Learn more about We Give Books joining First Book here. Then check out We Give Books and start reading today.
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I thought I'd take a break from our busy Valentine's Day and let you know about a special campaign for public schools. Starting today, Feb. 14, the
We Give Books website is running a new literacy campaign, "Read for My School." It's a really good way for kids to help out their schools, and get a little reading in at the same time. Depending on the number of books kids read online, schools can earn up to 500 books.
More information here:
http://www.wegivebooks.org/campaigns/rfmsWe Give Books is a wonderful online resource for digital children's books. It's free although parents and teachers must first register before kids can read books. The website is run by the Pearson Foundation and every time a child reads a book on the site the foundation in turn provides books to various literacy foundations -- a win/win for all. Several Penguin and DK Publishing books, both non-fiction and fiction, are available for children to read and the books are appropriate for various levels up to age 10. Both my kids love looking at all the books online and I'm surprised at the number of popular books available like the Llama Llama books and
The Snowy Day. My son especially loves the new book based on a true story,
Little Dog Lost by Mônica Carnesi.
Even if your child doesn't attend a public school, make sure to take a look. You can help support other campaigns such as Support My School India and Tinga Tinga Tales Early Childhood Development Programme supporting children in Africa. And all the while your child will benefit as well!
Help LitWorld and the Pearson Foundation’s We Give Books send 5000 much needed books to the Navajo Nation! Contributing to this new campaign is easy, fun, and free.
Visit the LitWorld Campaign at wegivebooks.org
Click Support This Campaign.
Sign up and read as many virtual books as you can! There is no limit!
Read a book, give a book.
For every book you read between now and January, We Give Books will donate one book to help supply thousands of families on the Navajo Nation with books to read together.
Pass this message along to your friends, family members, and colleagues. It is the perfect time of the year to cozy up together with your loved ones and read a beloved children’s book online (with benefit to others!).
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And, don’t forget to Save the Date for:
World Read Aloud Day, March 7, 2012!
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Today we bring you our weekly sampler of cool youth media and marketing gigs. If your company has an open position in the youth media or marketing space, we encourage you to join the Ypulse LinkedIn group, if you haven’t yet, and post there for... Read the rest of this post
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Do something good before jetting off this weekend – check out this beautifully-produced video from Pearson’s We Give Books and On My Mind Foundation. These two organizations paired up on a trip to Haiti to help schools affected by the earthquake disaster last year, and address the overwhelming illiteracy rate in that area. Now, We Give Books is providing 1,000 books to kids in Haiti, and you can find out more and help here.
The video features Jesse Joshua Watson, author/illustrator of the Putnam book Hope For Haiti, one of my favorite picture books we’ve published recently. Jesse’s artwork is brilliantly colored and perfectly suited to this uplifting story. It goes well beyond soccer and speaks straight to the heart of Haiti’s youngest generation. A must read – and I’m so glad that children in Haiti were able to experience it in their own language!
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We Give Books is a new digital initiative that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don’t have them, simply by reading online.
We Give Books combines the joy of reading with the power of helping others, providing a platform for caregivers and educators to inspire children to become lifelong readers and lifelong givers.
We Give Books also helps some of the world’s best, most inspiring, literacy organizations by spreading the word about their great work and by providing books to the young people these organizations support.
Our Campaign: The OCHO Project
Read a book online today and help We Give Books and the OCHO Project put books in the hands of underprivileged children across America.
OCHO (Opportunities for Children to Help Others) is dedicated to helping children support other children, both locally and globally, in an effort to improve their reading skills. Through reading books and completing academic reading exercises, students “earn” books and sponsor a free OCHO book fair for children at schools from low income areas.
The OCHO Project: Read for a Need was created as a way to encourage a love of reading for young children, enhance their literary skills, and show them a way that they can help provide books for children who have few or none of their own.
HOW IT WORKS
1.) First, join our Book Dads group
2.) Next, select a title from the ever-growing library of great children’s books and start reading online with a child in your life. Each time you read a book online, you help give a brand-new hardcover or paperback book from the Penguin and Dorling Kindersley library to the campaign you’ve selected. Read as many books as you like, as many times as you like.
3.) Spread the word and invite others to join our Book Dads group
Penguin and Pearson Foundation just recently launched an innovative new online reading and giving program called We Give Books (www.wegivebooks.org). We Give Books is a free website that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don’t have them, simply by reading online. It combines the joy of reading with the power of helping others, providing a platform for caregivers and educators to inspire children to become lifelong readers and lifelong givers.
We Give Books also helps some of the world’s best, most inspiring, literacy organizations by spreading the word about their great work and by providing books to the young people these organizations support.
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My students and I are supporting one of our Elementary schools that recently toured our middle school. I've never seen such enthusiasm among my students. I used We Give Books with my students last year that I tutored after school. This is an awesome program