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WE INVITE YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FREE PROGRAM WHICH ENCOURAGES YOU TO READ 1,000 BOOKS WITH YOUR CHILD BEFORE HE OR SHE STARTS KINDERGARTEN.

  99% of brain development happens in the first five years of life.  Reading in these critical years significantly influences a child’s lifelong capacity to learn. The concept is simple, the rewards are priceless. Read a book (any book) to your newborn, infant, and/or toddler.  The goal is to have read 1,000 books before your […]

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