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Guest commentary: Read Across America Day
The following guest commentary was submitted by the Char-Em United Way. Educators and policymakers of all stripes will be donning their Cat-in-the-Hat hats this week and reading to young children to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday. The National Education...Tags: Dolly Parton, Elementary Schools, Libraries, Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Community gathers at the Last Bookstore
The staircase is narrow and creaky, with a bookshelf made from a 100-year-old harp case teetering on the precipice of collapse at the top of the landing. Overflowing with open books, pages wildly askew and dangling from uneven shelves, the bookcase...
Tags: James Joyce, Fine Artists, Books and Magazines, The Goodwin Games (tv program), Books
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Seeley students celebrate Read Across America event
Staff WriterSEELEY — Students at Seeley Union Elementary School celebrated Reading Across America with books, snacks and crazy hats here Thursday. Reading Across America is an annual event that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Education, Students
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Famed authors behind the plays onstage in Orlando
Central Florida's theaters will be bursting with famous names during February — but they're names from the page, not on the stage. Plays presented around the region will boast some of the most famed names in literature, from ancient Greek writer...
Tags: Arts, Agatha Christie, Entertainment Events, Rollins College, Longwood (Seminole, Florida)
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Today's young readers are tomorrow's authors
I don’t remember the first book I read, but I do have clear memories of sitting with a book in my lap, turning the cardboard-like pages and sounding out the words. (Yes, they taught phonics in my day.) The earliest books I remember reading are the...
Tags: York County (Virginia), Libraries, Book, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Authors
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40th Annie Award nominees and winners list
Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" was named best animated film of 2012 at the 40th Annie Awards on Saturday evening at UCLA's Royce Hall. Rich Moore also was named best director for the animated comedy about a video game villain who dreams of being a hero, and ...
Tags: Media Industry, Batman (fictional character), SpongeBob SquarePants (tv program), Halloween, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (movie)
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Northern Michigan moms - Jan. 19, 2013
Bay Harbor Ice and Spice Festival — The Ice and Spice Festival is Saturday, Jan. 19, in Bay Harbor. Saturday events include: ice carving competitions 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; warming tent noon-5 p.m.; Pro-Am Chili Challenge 1-3 p.m.; fire dancer...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (movie), Travel, Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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Children have fun at annual Pajama Party in Calexico
Staff WriterCALEXICO — Local children dressed up in their best nighttime pajamas to attend the annual Pajama Party held at the Enrique Camarena Memorial Library here Thursday evening. Sponsored for the second year by the Associated Calexico Teachers union, the...Tags: Libraries, Authors, Arts and Culture
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Theater review: 'The Cat in the Hat' from Orlando Repertory Theatre
With no disrespect intended to the fine young cast of Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat," onstage at Orlando Repertory Theatre, the stars of this show are the strikingly stylized set and, of course, the good doctor's words. The mischievous Cat in the Hat,...
Tags: Animals, Arts and Culture
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Student advances in hoop shoot contest
Student advances in hoop shoot contest Jackson Carrazco, a fourth-grader at Hickory Elementary School, began his journey in the Elks Hoop Shoot when he represented Hickory Elementary School Jan. 12 at Williamsport High School, where he claimed first...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Awards and Prizes, Students, PTA
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'Seussical' being performed tonight
The characters in Aberdeen Central’s new play have names like the Sour Kangaroo, Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz. That's right, Dr. Seuss is involved. Twenty-nine students will present “Seussical,” a one-act musical, tonight at...
Tags: Music, Celebrities, Theater, Entertainment Events, Entertainment
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Caldecott, Newbery Medals awarded by American Library Assn.
The American Library Assn. announced its 2013 book award winners Monday at its annual national conference, held this year in Seattle. While the best-known awards are the John Newbery Medal and the Caledecott Medal, there are dozens of awards, each of...
Tags: Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Sinking of the Titanic (1912), Books and Magazines, Jane Austen, New York Public Library
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