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Kid and Family Friendly book- and author-related events and activities in & around the Berkshires, Berkshire County, Western Massachusetts

Children are invited to participate in Northshire Bookstore’s World of Reading Bookmark Design Contest

May 17, 2013
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Northshire Bookstore World of Reading Bookmark Design Contest for Kids

Downloadable Contest forms can found at northshire.com.

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Free ‘Every Child Ready’ to Read programs set to take place in Pittsfield and Great Barrington

April 19, 2013
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PITTSFIELD — A series of early literacy workshops, Every Child Ready to Read, will be held at the Berkshire Athenaeum (Pittsfield’s Public Library) and the Mason Library in Great Barrington for families with children birth to age 5. The workshops are presented by Wee Read, the Pittsfield Coordinated Family and Community Engagement grant and supported…

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StoryWalks and Wee Read Berkshire County celebrates literacy during April School Break in the Berkshires

April 10, 2013
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child reading a book in pajamas

THE BERKSHIRES —  Each year in the National Association for the Education of Young Children celebrates the Week of the Young Child in April, and so too does Berkshire County. This year the Berkshire Compact for Education will collaborate with early childhood providers and libraries of Berkshire County, as well as the Berkshire United Way’s…

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Wee Read Berkshire County 2013 Schedule of Events

April 10, 2013
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Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

Central Berkshire Regional School District StoryWalks: StoryWalks on display throughout the month of April at Becket Washington Elementary in Becket, Berkshire Trail Elementary in Cummington, Kittredge Elementary in Hinsdale and the Dalton CRA, Main Street, Dalton. Monday, April 15, 10 a.m. Berkshire Botanical Garden StoryWalk, includes story time and crafts/ Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge. April 17, 10-11:30 a.m.…

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Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vt., to celebrate National Autism Awareness Month

March 22, 2013
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Raising Cubby by John Elder Robison

MANCHESTER, Vt. —  When John Elder Robison published his memoir, “Look Me in the Eye,” in 2007, readers were given a window into the life of a man who spent 40 years knowing that he was different, but not knowing why. It was not until he learned that he had Asperger’s syndrome — a diagnosis…

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Every Child Ready to Read offers free literacy programs for families in the Berkshires

March 18, 2013
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PITTSFIELD — Once again the city of Pittsfield is focusing efforts to enhance children’s early literacy skills in and around the Berkshires, and this time it has a little help from a Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care Coordinated Family and Community Engagement grant. The grant will allow Pittsfield Public Schools and Pittsfield’s Coordinated Family…

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret screening creator and author come to the Berkshires

March 15, 2013
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GREAT BARRINGTON —  Train stations, 1930s France, French films, silent movies, automatons, George Melies — how in the world do you get 21st century kids tuned into those topics? That was the dilemna that faced author/illustrator Brian Selznick when he began writing his children’s novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” “Brian had to make sure…

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Schedule of One Book One Town, ‘The Invention of Hugo Cabret’ celebration in the Berkshires

March 15, 2013
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Hugo Cabret in the Berkshires

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Happy Read Across America Day!

March 2, 2013
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kids wearing Cat in the Hat hats in honor of Read Across America 2013

  Yesterday, March 1, schools and libraries throughout the United States celebrated the National Education Association’s Read Across America Day. The yearly event dedicated to books and literacy in honor of the late, great Dr. Seuss, usually occurs on March 2 (Dr. Seuss’ birthday), but because it fell on a weekend, the NEA celebrated a…

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Berkshire Festival of Women Writers: Events for parents, tweens, teens and families

February 28, 2013
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Little Women

THE BERKSHIRES — The third annual month-long Berkshire Festival of Women Writers will kick off this Friday, March 1, and as a woman, writer and mom of three young children (a 13- and 11-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl), I was interested in finding programs that would empower my daughter and educate her and her two brothers…

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