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94% of parents say libraries are important for their children
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from recent findings published in Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading, a Pew Internet & American Life Project
We thoroughly enjoyed hearing what the Pew crew had to say about parents, children and libraries! You can read the full report here
Our thanks to fellow book lovers at Feiwel & Friends for sharing such a great quote. Bonus points that the great quote is from Nathan Fillion!
Throughout January, Citi Pond® at Bryant Park™ — NYC’s first and only free-admission skating rink — offers library cardholders who are 17 and under a reduced skate rental price of $10 per rental (a 30% discount from the usual $14) as part of its “Read To Skate” program. To get the special $10 rental price, skaters must show their New York City library cards (from The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library or Queens Library) to rink staff at the Citi Pond Skating Pavilion, located in Bryant Park, on 40th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
Congrats to six-year-old Isabella Policarpo, the top child summer reader in Staten Island! Isabella read 413 books, most from her local Todt Hill-Westerleigh branch library.
She and other top summer readers will get to step on the field at this afternoon’s Yankees game and meet outfielder Curtis Granderson.
Hats off to all our summer readers!!
Photo courtesy Milena Policarpo and Staten Island Advance.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
— Maya Angelou
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.
They are the destination, and the journey.
They are home.
— Anna Quindlen
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
— Rene Descartes
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
— Victor Hugo
