Welcome back to a new school year.

I hope everyone took the time this summer to kick back and enjoy a good book.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.  ~Paul Sweeney

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." — Jacqueline Kennedy

"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read." — Marilyn Jager Adams

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