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LEAP’s Rebecca Kline Brown sent in this report:
From now through New Year’s Eve, when holiday shoppers check out at Barnes & Noble North Haven, they can buy a book for one of the 1,200 children who attend LEAP’s after-school and summer programs.
LEAP provides a literacy-focused curriculum and enrichment activities for children from five of New Haven’s lowest income neighborhoods – all free of charge. With help from Barnes and Noble North Haven shoppers, every child at LEAP will get new, exciting books to fall in love with and take home. There is no better holiday gift than a new book and you can give one not only to a loved one, but also to a child!
As part of LEAP’s efforts to help children build home libraries to support family literacy, LEAP will give the books donated through the Barnes and Noble Holiday Book Drive to the children to bring home so they can read them over and over and share them with their siblings. We know that children who have books at home read more, becoming stronger readers, writers, and communicators. That is why LEAP is collecting thousands of culturally relevant, high-interest books through various efforts to give to hundreds of New Haven kids to build their home libraries.
So, if you still have holiday shopping to do, head down to Barnes & Noble at 470 Universal Drive in North Haven by New Year’s Eve. And be sure to give the gift of reading to a New Haven child!