Reading

Have You Read the Most Popular Children's Book in Illinois?

Dolly Parton is the best. There's plenty of reasons why that statement is true. From helping pay for the COVID-19 vaccine, to continuously giving amazing advice to her fans, she is an amazing person. If you've never heard of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, I'm just going to let Dolly herself tell you all about it - It's an awesome organization...

Good news for local families who are running low on socially distant/educational activities, Rockford Public Library has something fun for us to do. The library is working with the community to encourage kids and families to read. They just launched their “Storybook Walk” at Sinnissippi Gardens...

Rockford Reads has successfully brought together community volunteers and elementary students to work jointly on reading skills since 2001, and they need more volunteers as we head into 2020.

A cool way to encourage reading.

A couple of Byron principals made a promise to the students of Mary Morgan that they paid off last night.

A new program reading to rescue cats at a local Iowa shelter proves to be helpful in two great ways.

My favorite thing about summer is just sitting in the sun, whether at the pool or at home on the patio, and reading. I got a chance to do that over the weekend. Loving John Grisham's "Testament" right now. Of course maybe I'm biased as he is one of my favorite authors. (By the way his books are way better than the movies.) If you're finding yourself in need of something  good to read, ch