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Read-Aloud Guru  Jim Trelease is a hero to millions. Jim Trelease is a hero to me, Angie Miles, founder of HAPPY Reading. The year that…

2020 Visions of First-year Teachers First Grade Goochland, Virginia How did you come to this moment in your professional life? What experiences did you have…

What are your earliest memories of books and reading? I can remember sitting on a little footstool beside my great grandmother as she read to…

I simply love reading. Every book has a profound impact on me because at a minimum the book makes me think and I always learn something new.

My earliest memories are of my older brothers reading to me. We had lots of books around the house. My oldest brother would always read “The Night Before Christmas” to me on Christmas Eve.

Karen Drosinis is Teacher of the Year for Virginia Beach and for Virginia’s Tidewater Region. She is a kindergarten teacher at Pembroke Elementary School.

Maria Liranzo is an experienced actress and a professional voice talent.  She lives in New York City with her husband and their two young sons.

Dr. Cathy Grace is Director of Early Childhood Development and Policy for the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. She is the mother of two…

My earliest memory of books and reading was having my mother read to us on Sunday afternoons as I child.

Felix is an adult learner in the LifeWorks Literacy program in Austin, Texas.  He shares his thoughts on becoming more literate in this exchange with HAPPY Reading. 

Dr. Michele Cooley-Strickland is a licensed psychologist and an associate research psychologist at UCLA.  She is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School. …

I was born in Weston, Ontario, Canada on a cold, snowy March day – the 16th to be exact. Funny, so was my brother, Paul….

If you enjoy smiling, Marty Kelley is the guy for you. He’s author of more than a dozen books, which tend to range in potency…

An interview with Carter Lyons of Powhatan, Virginia June, 2020 How important to you is reading as a parent of young children? I believe that…

You know him as an actor and director. From his earliest role as Kunta Kinte in the consciousness-raising mini-series, Roots, in 1977… to his role…