Ronald McDonald in Dobbs Ferry
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- July
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There was an exciting visitor at the Dobbs Ferry Public Library last week — and he read stories to the children.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the McDonald’s “Check It Out” Reading Program, Ronald McDonald visited the Dobbs Ferry library for a “Ronald and Me” reading tour. He read to group of more than 20 children and their parents. Dobbs Ferry served as the first stop of the 2008 “Ronald and Me” reading tour but so far the only one in our lower Hudson Valley region.
Five is the magic number
The McDonald’s “Check It Out”reading program encourages children in grades K-4 find to discover the enjoyment of reading. The program rewards children with a free Happy Meal for reading five books during the summer months. More than 1 million children in the New York tri-state area have participated in the program since its inception in 1998. This year the booklets are available in Spanish, as well.
The library, like all our libraries in the region, are sponsoring lots of reading programs for children including the “Catch the Reading Bug” through the New York State Library.
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