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Exciting news! First Book will now be offering Cricket and other award-winning kid’s magazines to the 27,000 schools and programs in our national network.

Thanks to our friends at ePals, we’ll be able to offer their full range of children’s magazine titles, including Cricket, Ladybug and Spider. These magazines are terrific; they’ve won pretty much every award possible, and they are loved by teachers and kids.

“This is exactly the sort of content First Book strives to bring to kids in need, so they’ll have the same great opportunities to fall in love with reading as more affluent children,” said Kyle Zimmer, president and CEO of First Book. “We’re really excited about being able to offer these magazines to the schools and programs we work with.”

The magazines will be available through the First Book Marketplace, our website available exclusively to teachers and program leaders who work with children from low-income families. An annual classroom subscription – 30 copies of each issue – retails for $1,018, but is available through First Book for $513.

If you work with children in need, sign up with First Book to get these great magazines for your kids. We also carry over 2,000 book titles at deeply-discounted prices, and distribute millions more every year – free of charge – to the programs in our network.

Some interesting animal stories of late that beg a trip to the public library:

• Silent Knight, a blinded California Sea Lion,  was brought to his new home at San Francisco Zoo on May 6, with buddy Henry, also blind.  Silent Knight was shot in the head with buckshot and found at Swede’s Beach in Sausalito during the Christmas Season.  Silent Knight is seven feet long and weighs 350 pounds.  Henry and Silent Knight seem happy in their new environment (mercurynews.com). Check out Sea Lions by Caroline Arnold.
• San Francisco Zoo will be getting a Siberian Tiger from the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska in June.  Martha, this 9½ year old female, will be the first Siberian at the Zoo since the fatal attack in December 2007.  Zoo Director Tanya Peterson says the Doorly Zoo “has made a decision to start paring down their (big cat) collection.”  Martha will live in the tiger exhibit with walls 22 feet high (sfgate). Check out Big Cats by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent.
• Underground for 13 years, cicadas have emerged in the states of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia.  They are big, loud, and in your face but other than that, cicadas are harmless according to Belmont University entomologist Steve Murphree, also a member of the Tennessee Entomological Society (The Tennessean).  Check out Cicadas! Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle.

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