Arizona Renaissance Festival Book Drive for KNTR

Kids Need to Read and the Arizona Renaissance Festival are teaming up! The festival is supporting Kids Need to Read in Royal proportions.  This weekend during the festival’s VERY popular Pirate Invasion weekend (February 26th and 27th), each paying adult who brings a new children’s or young adult book to donate to Kids Need to […]

KNTR Welcomes Author and Illustrator James A. Owen to Advisory Council

Kids Need to Read is honored to welcome James A. Owen to the foundation’s Advisory Council, where he joins author PJ Haarsma, actor Nathan Fillion, writer Margaret Bostrom, and author Jackie Morris. James A. Owen has written and illustrated five books in The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series: Here, There Be Dragons, The Search […]

Tickets to KNTR Geek Prom, Sponsored by Bookmans, On Sale Thursday Evening!

Written by Denise Gary Do the words “Kids Need to Read Geek Prom” give you Geekbumps? Yes! Geek Prom tickets will go on sale online at the Phoenix Comicon website Thursday night, February 10th, at 7:00 PM! They are only $10 each and due to the generosity of our supremely Geektacular sponsor, Bookmans, your ticket […]

Author and Illustrator Jackie Morris Joins the KNTR Advisory Council

Kids Need to Read enthusiastically welcomes Jackie Morris to the foundation’s Advisory Council, where she joins author PJ Haarsma, actor Nathan Fillion, and writer Margaret Bostrom. Jackie is an illustrator and author living in Wales in the UK. She has two children, Tom and Hannah, and read to both even before they were born. She […]