Personalized Childrens Books (Personalized Kids Books) (Personalized Kids Books)

Personalized Childrens Books

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Reforms would give kids preference to schools near home (Philly.com)
School district officials hope Philadelphia's neighborhood schools will become more neighborly if the district changes its admission and transfer policy to give preference to kids for schools nearer to where they live, as some Center City parents want.

Read to Achieve takes stars, books to eager audiences (Houston Chronicle)
With the NBA's All-Star Weekend fast approaching, the league has kicked off some events in the community, starting with the NBA Cares Read to Achieve Reading Caravan. The campaign made its away to a few elementary schools in the Houston area on Monday.

Safe Kids Kansas Offers Car Seat Inspections, Safety Belt Fit Tests (Kansas City InfoZine)
February 12-18 is Child Passenger Safety Week

By Tom Hintgen (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)
Sue Herder has worked as librarian at Our Lady of Victory School since 1992, and enjoys helping kids develop a love for reading. It's enjoyable, she says, seeing students from kindergarten through grade six checking out books on subjects in which they express an interest.

KFC's Colonel's Kids Wants to Change Lives; KFC's Colonel's Kids Kicks Off New Scholarship Program: Colonel's Scholars (HispanicBusiness.com)
Louisville, KY--(HISPANIC PR WIRE - BUSINESS WIRE)--February 10, 2006--KFC's Colonel's Kids, an independent non-profit Foundation established by KFC, is pleased to announce a new program: the Colonel's Scholars.

Balancing books, computers (Sentinel & Enterprise)
LEOMINSTER -- Local educators applaud the growing virtual bookstore of online books and the new skills they can teach, but they urge parents to balance modern technology with traditional storytime.

Kids Books (South Bend Tribune)
This book welcomes your preschooler to a town that has fun ways of showing affection. Read along for instructions on such hugs as the Octopus Hug and the Tornado Hug. Crandall says he wrote this book for his children when they started to turn away from his simple hugs.

Kids Spend Weekend Learning (R News)
Students from Rochester and Buffalo spent their weekend hitting the books. Kids from the two cities competed in a science and math regional competition. The competition encourages high school students to pursue careers in math and science.

IN MY OPINION: Playtime gets kids ready for kindergarten (The Charlotte Observer)
Q. I'm the preschool director of a school with a strong philosophy that children learn best through play. Each year, more parents are lobbying for academics. They're afraid their kids won't be ready for kindergarten.

Toronto pupils send books to Katrina victims (The Steubenville Herald-Star)
TORONTO - Pupils at Lincoln Elementary School recently enjoyed learning how to read while at the same time helping send schools affected by Hurricane Katrina new books.