Reading Revolution: Inspiring Positive Life Paradigms

By Denise Gary Photographs © Robert Gary I learned my first life lesson of emotional suffering in others when I was in fifth grade. A paradigm of compassion and respect that would last throughout my lifetime came together in one fateful moment of despair expressed directly to me by a sad, neglected girl cruelly referred […]

Avast Ye! Piratical Fun at Arizona Renaissance Festival

Written by Debbie Brown Photographs © Denise Gary Ahoy Me Hearties! Kids Need to Read had an AMAZING adventure at the 2012 Arizona Renaissance Festival! For the past two years (and many more to come) the festival has hosted a book drive for Kids Need to Read during Pirate Weekend. Buccaneers, lads, and lasses abounded […]

Comics N’ Coasters: Exhilarating FUNdraiser!

By Denise Gary Photography © Anie Miles I have found that working for good and having fun always seem to go hand in hand. That was certainly true recently when artist Bianca Thompson put together a great fundraiser for KNTR at Castles N’ Coasters on a beautiful, sunny Phoenix, Arizona day! Justice League Arizona members […]

“Reading Revolution” Program Highlighted at Read Across America Day

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “Reading Revolution” Program Highlighted at Read Across America Day  Phoenix, Arizona, March 2, 2012:  Denise Gary, Executive Director of Kids Need to Read, will be presenting the next phase of the “Reading Revolution” program to the students of ASU Preparatory Academy.  Kids Need to Read will be celebrating Read Across America Day […]

Argh Matey! Kids Need to Read is Going Pirate at the Arizona Renaissance Festival!

Kids Need to Read and the Arizona Renaissance Festival are teaming up once again! The festival is supporting Kids Need to Read in Royal proportions. During the festival’s VERY popular Pirate Invasion weekend of February 25th and 26th, each child (ages 5-12) who brings a new children’s or young adult book to donate to Kids […]