E-Books for Low-Income Children

The Plan to Give e-Books to Poor Kids

Cory Turner | April 30, 2015

Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?
I see a blue horse, a purple cat, and a new program — unveiled today by President Obama — with one goal in mind:

Source: http://www.amazon.com/JUDY-MOODY-WAS-MOOD-BOOK/dp/0763648493

To put good books in the hands of low-income kids.
More specifically, $250 million worth of e-books available to young, low-income readers — free. The effort will work through a new app, being developed by the New York Public Library, that has the buy-in of all the major publishers.
"Children should not be unable to get reading materials because their parents don't have money," says Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, which has offered up all of its titles for kids from 4 to 14.

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