CAMDEN Planning on buying a book? Wait until Childrens Book Week, Nov. 13-17, and your purchase at the Barnes & Noble in Moorestown will benefit the Rutgers-Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies (CCCS) mission to promote literacy.
To make a portion of your Barnes & Noble purchase benefit the Rutgers-Camden centers various community programs to engage children with reading, visit children.camden.rutgers.edu and print out a voucher. The voucher must be presented at the time of purchase for the transaction to occur.
As part of Rutgers-Camden Childrens Book Week fundraiser, two free storytelling performances will take place on Friday, Nov. 17. At 11 a.m., local performer Lamont Dixon will portray Dr. Seusss beloved Cat in the Hat and turn One Fish, Two, Red Fish, Blue Fish into a fun, interactive, group activity. At 7 p.m., storyteller Kyle Jakubowski of the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts will delight the young audience with vignettes from books featured in the Stedman Gallerys current exhibition titled Picture Stories: A Celebrate of African-American Illustrators.
Since 2001, Rutgers-Camdens Center for Children and Childhood Studies has distributed 99,000 books to Camden children in waiting rooms, childcare centers, the Camden City Free Library, and other community partners.
Barnes & Noble is located in the East Gate Square shopping plaza at 1311 Nixon Drive in Moorestown.
For more information about the Rutgers-Camden Childrens Book Week event, contact Becky Heritage at (856) 225-6739.
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