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Hooked On Books.

Posted by Christopher Waldrop

July 11, 2007 |

The organization First Book, a non-profit whose mission is to give low-income children a chance to read and own their first books, is asking, What Book Got You Hooked? Go to the web site and tell them your first and favorite book–the book that got you hooked on reading. Check out the testimonials from such diverse people as Michael Chabon, actress Joan Allen, Kathleen Herles (voice of Dora The Explorer) and Laura Numeroff, author of the brilliant children’s book If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.

It’s no accident that many of the testimonials come from writers. Give a child a book and you inspire him or her to want to write books. In low-income neighborhoods the ratio of age-appropriate books is one for every three-hundred children.

Submit your book and vote for the state you want to receive 50,000 new books. You can submit one book every 24 hours until July 31st.


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  1. maureen on July 11, 2007 6:51 pm

    What a great idea and a great cause! My grandkids love books..one of my recent favorites for the younger ones is “On the Night You Were Born” It has a lovely sentiment “because there never had been anyone like you….ever in the world”

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