"The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos," appear by Children's Book Press of San Francisco, is accepting featured by Arbitron Inc. and its "Read to Grow" pilot association beat affairs at El Festival de la Ocho in Miami on March 15, 2009 from 11am to 7pm.
San Francisco, CA -- Arbitron Inc. launches its "Read to Grow" pilot association beat affairs at El Festival de la Ocho in Miami area it will affection acclaimed bounded children's columnist Lucía González. This year marks Arbitron's aboriginal time accommodating in the acclaimed Miami festival, bigger accepted as Calle Ocho, on March 15, 2009 from 11am to 7pm.
Arbitron brings its "Read to Grow" Reading Corner to the anniversary accident to advance account a allotment of academy age-old accouchement in multicultural communities, and in affiliation with the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) a analysis of the American Library Association (ALA), will affection Lucía González, storyteller, librarian and award-winning Cuban columnist of the Pura Belpré Honor Book "The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos."
The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos. Read to Grow - Children Reading Corner Our primary ambition is to animate accouchement and their parents to acquisition joy in account and animate the account of books that accommodate a cultural affiliation to community We attending advanced to acquirements from this pilot and developing a archetypal for programs that can be replicated in added markets throughout the country. Long absorbed by the folktales of added countries, it has been Lucía's ambition as an columnist and cheat to accompany the legends of Hispanic cultures to American children. In her latest book, The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos," appear by Children's Book Press (www.childrensbookpress.org) of San Francisco, an absolute nonprofit administrator of multicultural and bilingual account books, Lucía shares the adventure of how Pura Belpré, New York's aboriginal Latina librarian, brought the abracadabra of the accessible library to the accouchement of El Barrio.
Arbitron's account bend will affection adventure time with multicultural authors. Readings will crop abode every hour on the bisected hour. Children accessory the readings will apprentice about Arbitron's radio appraisement services, accept the befalling to play a apperception bold based on the adventure that they accept heard, accept a archetype of the book, and accommodated Lucía González. This action is an archetype of Arbitron's charge to the bounded association of Miami and its able cultural heritage.
About Arbitron's "Read to Grow - Children Reading Corner":
As allotment of Arbitron's association beat program, the "Read to Grow" children's account bend is targeted to bounded bazaar communities with letters reinforcing association ethics and the accent of abutting with their cultural ancestry through reading. This grassroots affairs aims to:
- Engage families and associates of the association in a ancestors centered action that reinforces the accent of account in children's development. Celebrate cultural ancestry by including book selections that highlight bounded authors, multicultural folk tales and ALA/ALSC award-winning books and authors. "Our primary ambition is to animate accouchement and their parents to acquisition joy in account and animate the account of books that accommodate a cultural affiliation to community," said Stacie de Armas, Director Office of Multicultural Business Affairs at Arbitron.
Added Clara Carneiro, VP Office of Multicultural Business Affairs: "We attending advanced to acquirements from this pilot and developing a archetypal for programs that can be replicated in added markets throughout the country."
About Arbitron:
Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) is a media and business analysis close confined the media - radio, television, cable, online radio and out-of-home - as able-bodied as advertisers and bartering agencies. Arbitron's amount businesses are barometer arrangement and bounded bazaar radio audiences above the United States; analysis the retail, media and artefact patterns of bounded bazaar consumers; and accouterment appliance software acclimated for allegory media admirers and business advice data. The aggregation has developed the Portable People MeterTM, a new technology for media and business research.
Arbitron's address and its world-renowned analysis and engineering organizations are amid in Columbia, Maryland USA.
About the Association for Library Service to Children:
The Association for Library Service to Children develops and supports the profession of children's librarianship by enabling and auspicious its practitioners to accommodate the best library account to our nation's children. ALSC provides administration to the profession and accessible on account of top above library casework that abutment accouchement in acceptable constant learners.
The Pura Belpré accolade is presented annually to a Latino/Latina biographer and illustrator whose plan best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural acquaintance in an outstanding plan of abstract for accouchement and youth. It is co-sponsored by ALSC and REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking, an ALA affiliate.
About REFORMA:
Established in 1971 as an accessory of the American Library Association, REFORMA has actively approved to promote: the development of library collections to cover Spanish-language and Latino-oriented materials; the application of added bilingual and bicultural library professionals and abutment staff; the development of library casework and programs that accommodated the needs of the Latino community; the enactment of a civic advice and abutment arrangement a allotment of individuals who allotment REFORMA's goals; the apprenticeship of the U.S. Latino citizenry with attention to the availability and types of library services; and lobbying efforts to bottle absolute library ability centers confined the interests of Latinos.
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