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Charity Group Donating 25,000 Books To NYC Schools · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Cubby, Christine and Kristin three people doing the work of
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  Speaker 1: ten for the good of millions, and here we are
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday. Yes, and if you want success for
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  Speaker 1: your child, have them pile on the reading. A study
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  Speaker 1: from Oxford University found nothing had more of an impact
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  Speaker 1: on the future success of kids than reading, more than sports,
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  Speaker 1: more than socializing, going to museums, cooking, sewing. I mean
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  Speaker 1: those are all good things. Yeah, but reading number one. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: number one. It's really cool. My daughter Naomi is six
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  Speaker 1: and she's really really gotten good at readings in kindergarten
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, and she loves it and it's just so
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  Speaker 1: exciting to see the early moments. Yeah, and hopefully she'll
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  Speaker 1: who knows, be a big reader. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: she loves readings.
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  Speaker 2: And all the worlds that open up to you absolutely
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  Speaker 2: when you get that when you figure out how to
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  Speaker 2: read that moment.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing too, we can't spell in front of her
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  Speaker 1: much anymore. Oh right, she taught us that on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: We were like, I think Neil tred She goes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not tired. Oh, your goddess. So that's changing too.
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  Speaker 2: That's done. Well. This is great news because there is
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  Speaker 2: also like just tying into what you said, Kaby. A
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  Speaker 2: charity group here in New York they're called book Fairies,
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  Speaker 2: and they're about to make a huge impact on the
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  Speaker 2: lives of kids in New York City and Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: They are donating twenty five thousand books cool to the
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  Speaker 2: kids in our area, made possible by a donation from
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  Speaker 2: online used book retailer thrift Books. Last year, book Fairies
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  Speaker 2: was nearly thirty thousand books short of meeting the requests
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  Speaker 2: that they had received, and thrift Books came through. Volunteers
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  Speaker 2: are using Pallett jacks and spending valuable time sorting through
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  Speaker 2: the stacks preparing for the big time distribution events where
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  Speaker 2: teachers and community leaders can stop the shelves for free.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you book Fairies. That's that is just absolutely
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  Speaker 2: wonderful work that they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember an early book maybe elementary school that
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  Speaker 1: stands out they still remember, Like I remember everyone reading
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  Speaker 1: Judy Bloom and mainly The Girls, but I kind of
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  Speaker 1: dug super Fudge, but like choose your own adventure books
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  Speaker 1: I was really into.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like I like when you talk about
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking Naomi, like I can go all the way
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  Speaker 2: all the way back with the first books that I
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  Speaker 2: learned to read, which were children's books. And we're really
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  Speaker 2: exciting Nancy definitely read Nancy Drew.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, producer christ and held up Drew.
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  Speaker 2: Picture Nancy Drew. And then I like, I love Jane Austen,
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  Speaker 2: I love starting to read the classics. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Reading, it's great, man, so we encourage it. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: actually speaking of reading, read the copy in front of
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  Speaker 1: you on the tele prompter.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a book that a lot of us love.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's in the theater. We're talking Harry Potter.
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  Speaker 2: We have a pair of tickets to see Harry Potter
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  Speaker 2: and The Curse Child on Broadway this spring at Lyric Theater.
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  Speaker 2: Tickets available now at Broadway dot Harry Potter the play
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  Speaker 2: dot com, or you can give us a call call
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  Speaker 1: Her ten one eight hundred two two two one o
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  Speaker 1: six seven and good luck