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Baby's Got Mail: Free Books Boost Early Literacy

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Parton first launched the Imagination Library in 1995 in eastern Tennessee, where she grew up in poverty with a father who couldn't read. The program expanded nationally in 2000. Now, there are Imagination Library programs in all but one state and in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada — reaching more than 1 million children a month in the U.S. Full story here.
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18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read

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I need a smoke...

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Where was this Kent cigarette ad found? In this 1974 paperback. If you had asked me yesterday when cigarette ads were last placed in books I would have guessed mid-1960s. The color ad was a single page with a different Kent ad on each side. The ad was bound into the book. 
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Kids read to dog at Moore library The Moore Public Library's "Barks, Books and Buddies" allows children to read to dogs, who are always nonjudgmental listeners. Full article here.
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