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Andrea Reece
Verified
Managing Editor, Books for Keeps
London
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Environment , Politics , Current Affairs , News , Travel
Finance, Science, Fashion
Content
By Andrea Reece Verified| Books for Keeps Verified Fans of Jeff Norton’s thrilling Dino Knights chapter books owe a big thank you to his son, Torin, for sparking the idea that led to the series, and its enthralling mix of knights and dinosaurs. It was during one middle of the night ‘playdate’ when Torin was a toddler that he took a plastic knight and popped it on the back of one of his dinosaur toys. ‘As soon as he did it, I thought, “That’s brilliant!”,’ says Jeff, ‘and that night before I went back to bed, I drew a picture of it.
By Andrea Reece Verified| Books for Keeps Verified Amelia Egghart is no ordinary chicken; she’s a chicken with a dream. Ever since she was a chick, she’s been in training to achieve her goal and fly, fly longer than any chicken ever has before. She knows chickens aren’t very good at flying – in fact the longest a chicken has even flown for is 13 seconds (true – I checked) – but she’s not going to let that stop her, and fortunately her friend Ferguson is there to help.
By Andrea Reece Verified| Books for Keeps Verified Fans of Jeff Norton’s thrilling Dino Knights chapter books owe a big thank you to his son, Torin, for sparking the idea that led to the series, and its enthralling mix of knights and dinosaurs. It was during one middle of the night ‘playdate’ when Torin was a toddler that he took a plastic knight and popped it on the back of one of his dinosaur toys. ‘As soon as he did it, I thought, “That’s brilliant!”,’ says Jeff, ‘and that night before I went back to bed, I drew a picture of it.
Company Info
Books for Keeps
Since 2009, Books for Keeps (BFK) has given more than 775,000 books to children in grades Pre-K through 12 as well as their communities. For 10 months of the year, we collect, inspect, sort, and box books, only to give them all away each spring. Books we can't use are given away at our annual Community Book Fair each fall. Books for Keeps' primary program is a research-based effort to end "summer slide," the learning loss suffered by many children when they are away from school. Children from low-income families are disproportionately affected by this loss, often due to a simple lack of access to books. Many children cannot or do not access their public libraries for reasons related to geography, transportation, or something as simple as an inability to pay fines for lost books. By middle school, the children from these families may be three grade-levels behind their peers. That gap is nearly insurmountable, and negatively affects their chances of graduating high school. Books for Keeps bridges the gap by giving them books – high-quality, exciting books with contemporary titles. It's a strategy proven to have a similar impact to attending summer school, but at a fraction of the cost.
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Founded: 2011