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Season's Greetings!
Last fall, when the New York Times declared picture books were "so unpopular these days," I was surrounded by eager readers at the Oakland Parents Literacy Project's Family Night where, after teachers and volunteers read aloud to different age-groups, each child received an age appropriate, NEW book. Yes there were chapter books and middle grade novels, but imagine dozens upon dozens of PICTURE BOOKS clutched tightly in the hands of young readers as if they were made of gold.
Fast forward to our local Santa Parade this December, where I got to be a BookMobile Elf. 
@ (Yes, Virginia-- a Bookmobile Elf) Thanks to our wonderful public LIBRARIES 
and the generous donation from Raley's, we elves handed out NEW children's books--one for each kid along the parade route--instead of candy! Imagine 1.5 miles of happy children with a new book in hand, hundreds of which were PICTURE BOOKS and BOARD BOOKS. Several young mother
