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What: Book Bash! World Read Aloud Day
When: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 4:30 PM
Where:
Citibabes Scarsdale
7 Popham Road at Depot Place Third Floor (above CVS)
Scarsdale, NY 10583
914-725-3334
TRPG and some of your other favorite parenting groups have partnered with LitWorld to create an amazing celebration of World Read Aloud Day, right here in Westchester!
Whether your child is still crawling or has just started preschool, encouraging and maintaining a love of reading is one of the best things you can do for them. But what types of books at what ages?
Please join us with your 0-4yr olds for a special Book Bash, celebrating World Read Aloud Day, and benefiting the Andrus Children's Center.
We’ll have lively story-time readings, literacy tips from the LitWorld team, a musical show from Brett Rothenhaus, arts and crafts, light refreshments and PIZZA, plus loads of information about our Westchester libraries and resources.
PLUS there’ll be amazing gift bags for the first 25 who RSVP, and special raffle prizes for some lucky attendees! All books collected will be donated to the Andrus Children’s Center at the end of the party. Please note – space will be limited so RSVP today.
RSVP to:
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Cost: 2 new unwrapped books per child
Time: 4:30pm-6pm
Brought to you by: babybites Westchester, The Rivertown Play Group, Stroller Strides, Baby Boot Camp
Special thanks to: LitWorld, Citibabes, Brett Rothenhaus
Links:
www.litworld.org
www.andruschildren.org
http://westchester.babybites.com/
www.therivertownplaygroup.com
www.strollerstrides.com
www.babybootcamp.com
www.brettband.com
www.citibabes.com
A little about World Read Aloud Day and LitWorld:
World Read Aloud Day, officially celebrated on March 3rd, is a global event created by LitWorld to motivate children, teens and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words, and especially those words that are shared from one person to another.
By valuing the extraordinary impact words can have when shared, we are also raising our voices together on this day to show the world’s children that we are raising our voices for and with them: that they have the right to read, to write, to share stories and poems and to create their own. By recognizing the power of their own stories, our children can change the world. By learning to read and write by passing stories, poems and words to one another, we are sending the strong message: words change worlds.
We are advocating for education, access to books, access to technology and safe schools: sanctuaries where every child has the right to a safe and secure education that involves the beauty and delights of a story or poem told and shared.
Children who are read to are shown to have a profoundly greater chance of staying in school and doing well in school.
Access to books and technology is critical for all children. But we also must be sure that entire communities rally behind the cause of reading and the power of words. It is the only way we will break the cycle of illiteracy worldwide. Together, we can form together with our voices an unbreakable link from one generation to the next.
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