Their goal is to make reading fun while encouraging fathers and caregivers to read to their kids daily.
"Susan Neuman did study on urban communities, and in urban communities 300 kids on average are sharing one book, whereas in the suburbs, they have 13 books per child," Johnstone said."We first went on a campaign of reading to 30 daycares in 30 days and started with taking books from our kids' shelves," Staples said. "We started with three books then, and we're now over 100,000 books that we've distributed throughout the city.
"We were able to find a book distributor, Book Smiles in Pennsauken, NJ, who has thousands of them and we wanted to make sure that when we're in Latino communities we're giving them books written by Latino authors and also books that's written in Spanish," Johnstone said.
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