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Video & Audio
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First Book featured on Comcast Local Edition
Joan Sahlgren, Vice President of Communications, speaks about First Book’s innovative model to bring new books to children from low-income families.
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Kyle Zimmer at the World Economic Forum
Turns out our fearless leader and founder is also a leading social entrepreneur! Watch Kyle Zimmer as she presents ideas at the World Economic Forum in January 2010.At First Book, we know that access to books is the way to elevate education and rock the world, just like the historic Gutenberg Printing Press did back in 1440, creating access to printed materials and information. Could First Book be the Gutenberg 2.0?
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No Buts About It,
We love to Read!
Check out First Book staffer (and well-known children’s author) Erica Perl as she takes a stroll through New York City and Washington, DC, rapping about her love for reading. Her cohorts include fellow children’s author Ayun Halliday, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jon Scieszka, esteemed children’s librarian and School Library Journal blogger, Elizabeth “Fuse # 8” Bird, and enthusiastic readers, ages 7 to 97. Guaranteed!
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First Book and RIF
Deliver Books to Kids!
Learn how these two children’s literacy nonprofits work together to serve communities needing books for their children. First Book is an award-winning, RIF-approved vendor, providing high-quality, low-cost books to programs serving children in need. Watch this short video to learn what RIF’s Carol H. has to say.
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An Introduction to First Book
An overview of First Book's leading edge efforts to bring books to all children in need to help end illiteracy.
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Pi Beta Phi: A Legacy of Literacy
Since 2007, First Book has partnered with Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women and its members to distribute more than 600,000 new books to help remove the barrier of illiteracy. Learn more about Pi Phi's efforts to end illiteracy and their partnership with First Book. Video courtesy of Pi Beta Phi.
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There's a Place for You
First Book's award-winning recruiting video for Advisory Boards. Listen to Advisory Board chairs talk about First Book, explain the AB model, and share in the magic of watching children receive their first new books.
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Book Relief: A First Book Initiative
In the past two years, Book Relief has distributed five million new books in the five Gulf states affected by the 2005 hurricanes and to programs serving evacuees in an additional 16 states.
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First Book Speed Read 2005
In a First Book Speed Read™ fundraising event, each person has 15 seconds to "speed read" as many words as possible from a children's book. This video features some of our celebrity "speed readers," such as Rhea Perlman, Eric Close, columnist Joel Stein, and several NASCAR drivers.
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First Book In The News
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Social Edge Interview with First Book President, Kyle Zimmer
She shares with Global X a piece of advice: "To be an agent of change, you should be fearless!"
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First Book and Hooked on Phonics on The Early Show
Chip Paucek, president of Hooked on Phonics, and Lynda Lancaster of First Book announce a new youth reading initiative in honor of the reading program's 20th anniversary. This news segment aired on August 17, 2007
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NBC's Today Show celebrates First Book and
The Cat in the Hat's 50th birthday!
This news segment aired on March 8, 2007
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First Book and Build-A-Bear on CBS's Early Show
This news segment aired on March 1, 2007
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Deutsche Welle (German TV)
In 2006, a video crew from German television station Deutsche Welle came by First Book's office to film a profile of First Book as part of their series about the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurs. It aired on the Deutsche Welle program Made in Germany and you can view it on their website (it's in English). You will need Real Player to view the video.
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The Cat in the Hat Challenge Program
Newscasters were challenged to wear a Cat in the Hat hat. Each time that hat was worn on-air, it triggered a donation of 5000 new books by Random House to First Book. A total of 225,000 books were donated.
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First Book Blog - Podcasts and Videos
Podcasts
Includes audio interviews with several children's authors such as Doreen Cronin (Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type) and Laura Numeroff (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie), as well as blog calls with Verizon Yellow Pages Literacy Champion Eric Close (Without a Trace) and Sonia Manzano (“Maria” from Sesame Street).
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Videos
Author interviews from Book Expo America 2006. Includes James Patterson (Maximum Ride), E.D. Baker (The Frog Princess), and others.
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Public Service Announcements
Public Service Announcements for First Book feature celebrities such as Eric Close, John Lithgow, Sonia Manzano, Cedric the Entertainer, and Christopher Meloni.
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