Fillion Fans Accomplish Something Special for Chicago Kids
By Denise Gary There is just something about KNTR co-founder Nathan Fillion that produces warm-hearted fans. Not only did fans of Fillion help get Kids Need to Read off the ground four years ago, but a new group of his appreciators has been supporting Kids Need to Read for the past two years. Nathan Fillion […]
Leadership through Literacy: Teen Moms Meet KNTR
By Denise Gary Photographs © Robert Gary I like to think of KNTR books as small embers. Each one has the potential to erupt into a bright flame for a kid that I will never meet. I love that idea – of indirectly changing the life of someone I will never know. But on occasion, […]
Looking Beyond the Challenge
Written by Denise Gary Photographs © Robert Gary and Denise Gary I am privileged. My life has been enriched beyond measure by the company of a person possessing extraordinary skills and a unique perception of life – my son, who is challenged by Asperger’s syndrome, a condition that is part of the autism spectrum. Many […]
Arizona High School Students Help Provide Books to Mississippi Elementary School
Written by Denise Gary It is always very moving when children work to make life better for other children they have never met. I am never sure they truly comprehend the desperate lives other children sometimes lead, but I do know that a spirit of peace, tolerance, and compassion is forged by working to help […]
Artists, Stormtroopers, Comics, and Highlights: Free Comic Book Day at CFA
Written by Denise Gary Photographs © Denise Gary The picture above says it all; a child looks up in admiration at an awe-inspiring hero without realizing that behind his back, he holds in his hands the most powerful, transformative weapon he will ever come to know—a book. The gift of reading, combined with access to […]