If You Give a Child a Book . . .
July 2011
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Gatsby lives...: Say what you will about the Borders situation... →
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… but you know what *I’ll* miss?
The thousands of dollars that Borders was able to raise and channel on an annual basis to nonprofits supporting literacy and children in poverty through their in-store charitable campaigns.
Thus making millions of books available to children who didn’t have…
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“Let me close by saying, from the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise, sacred.”
—George Saunders, providing a summer reading list for kids. (via thebronzemedal)
