You may not have realized it when you woke up this morning, but this week, November 13-19, is Children’s Book Week 2006!
Organized by the Children’s Book Council (CBC), Children’s Book Week has been a tradition since 1919. The purpose of Children’s Book Week is best described through the words of Frederic Melcher, one of […]

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I had the pleasure of speaking recently with pop-up book creators, Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. Robert and Matthew have each created many breathtaking and award-winning pop-up books, and most recently, they collaborated to create the first two installments of Encyclopedia Prehistorica series, including Sharks and Other Sea Monsters and Dinosaurs. The final […]

 

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Okay, so they didn’t go to law school. But with a successful off-Broadway show, a new book and a movie deal, Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson would make any Jewish mother proud.
Now on a book tour to promote Jewtopia: The Chosen Book for the Chosen People, Fogel and Wolfson bring wit, warmth and irreverence […]

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This week, America voted for community leaders; today, you can vote to bring 20,000 new children’s books to a community near you!
SuperPages.com and First Book are delighted to announce the Cast Your Vote for Reading Challenge. First Book is an international nonprofit organization placing new books into the hands of the most disadvantaged children. With […]

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Our special guest in First Book’s podcast series this week is Laura Numeroff, bestselling author of such well loved children’s titles as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Pig a Party. Her latest works, Mouse Cookies & More, A Treasury and When Sheep Sleep, were both published this […]

 

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Dr. Seuss and The Cat in the Hat were honored at First Book’s Second Annual “Ben’s Chili Bowl Halloween Outing” with a staff interpretation of the trouble-making duo Thing 1 and Thing 2. Featured in the photo is a very frightened-looking First Book President, Kyle Zimmer, along with Fellow 1 (Stephanie) and Fellow 2 […]

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This post is part of a weekly series of synopses of children’s books, written by First Book staff members.
Five Silly Fishermen, by Roberta Edwards, illustrated by Sylvie Wickstrom. Five silly fisherman are convinced that one of their group has drowned! Has he really drowned, or are they counting wrong? Grades K-2.

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Join us for a pajama party and Books at Bedtime with KN Karen Neuburger and author Laura Numeroff this Friday!
The KN Karen Neuburger lifestyle brand has teamed up with famed children’s author Laura Numeroff to promote children’s literacy and raise funds for First Book. We’re all celebrating with Laura and Mouse — star of […]

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Many of you will remember that First Book teamed up with Borders last year for a holiday giving promotion. In just four weeks, we raised more than $460,000 for First Book’s local efforts — wahoo! All of those funds were distributed to more than 550 nonprofit organizations working with children in need in […]

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It is still hours before the nation will have any Election Day results, but as we wait, First Book is proud to announce the winner of the latest round of the Run, Pass and Click for Literacy Competition!
Congratulations to the First Book Campus Advisory Board at North Central College for mobilizing its campus and receiving […]

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