Book Festivals and Breakfast: You're Invited to Join Raising A Reader MA in Celebrating Family Literacy Month

Raising A Reader MA:

You're invited to join us in celebrating Massachusetts Family Literacy Month

Meet our Chelsea Parent Ambassdors - Raising a Reader MA

"Raising A Reader MA helped motivate me to read with my son. Now he's doing great in school and loves reading."

--Norma Salgado, Chelsea, MA

We're celebrating Massachusetts Family Literacy Month by celebrating Norma and the thousands of parents inspired to read with their children through their experiences with Raising A Reader MA.

Please join

Celebrating Reading, Family Style

Thursday, November 15th

9:00 AM -10:30 AM at the Boston Harbor Hotel.

Featuring:

Emcee: Meghna Chakrabarti, WBUR's "Radio Boston"

Discussants: Raising A Reader MA's Parent Ambassadors in Chelsea, MA

Honoring: Nancy Traversy, Co-founder and CEO of Barefoot Books

$100 per person or $750 for a table of ten.

Register by phone at 617.292.BOOK or on online at www.raisingareaderma.org/familystyle

"Celebrating Reading, Family Style" is sponsored by Barefoot Books, WBUR, TD Bank, and The Boston Globe.

Look for Raising A Reader MA and Barefoot Books in Booth #63 at the 4th Annual Boston Book Festival on Saturday, October 27th. Set up from 9:00-5:00 PM in the heart of Copley Square, we will be joined by publishers, book sellers and literary programs from across the region for this celebration of reading and authors.

Other highlights include a Kids Keynote by Lemony Snicket, children's story times, and a writers' lab.

Download the schedule for this free event

http://www.bostonbookfest.org

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Tweet for Books Update:

From 8:00 AM on Wednesday, October 10th through 8:00 PM on Thursday, October 11th, we bombarded the Twitterverse with messages about family reading time as part of the The Boston Foundation's Giving Common Challenge. As a result of more than 300,000 people on Twitter seeing our messages we raised $6,550. This money is being put to immediate use helping children and families close the achievement gap through reading. Thank you!

Nancy Traversy, Barefoot Books Co-founder and CEO, will receive the Red Bag for Family Literacy on November 15th at Celebrating Reading, Family Style.

Green Bananas at Bedtime

"My children are now a little too grown up for bedtime stories (well I don't think so but they do!), but I have many fond memories of our family story times. While we had lots of wonderful stories that we read and re-read together, one in particular that has stuck in my mind as a favourite that we pulled out most evenings and all the kids loved. It was..."

Can't join us for these events?

You can still celebrate families who are cultivating habits of reading at home by

making a donation to Raising A Reader MA.

1. Make a donation online.

Donors who give $50 or more will be given a complimentary VIP discount card to Legacy Place Mall in Dedham.

2. Visit www.readingbarefoot.com

before October 31st and make a purchase using coupon code Twenty12.

10% of your sales will be donated to Raising A Reader MA.

About Us

Raising A Reader MA is closing the academic achievement gap by helping families of young children (newborn to age 5) develop, practice and maintain habits of reading together at home. Our work, which both increases access to books and offers families tools and support for strengthening the culture of reading at home, is driven by 25 years of research that shows the single most significant factor influencing a child's lifelong achievement is being regularly read to by their parents and adult caregivers before starting kindergarten. Learn more and become a supporter online www.raisingareaderma.org.

Thanks to our 2012 corporate sponsors!