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Read Across America Day began in 1998, on March 2 which was the birthday of the popular children's author, Dr. Seuss. The NEA partnered with Dr. Seuss Enterprises on the venture from 1997 to 2018, when the contract ended. [44] Since 2017, NEA's Read Across America focuses on the importance, value, and fun of reading and sharing diverse books ...
Laura Bush invited Numeroff and Bond to the White House to be honored at the Presidential Inauguration "NEA Teacher’s Picks Books to Read Across America" in 1999 plus for the If You Give... series at the "Laura Bush Celebrates American Authors" in 2001. Numeroff has also won awards for her individual stories, including the Milner Award in 2007.
Rails Across America, a railroad simulation game released in late 2001; Read Across America, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association; Spoons Across America, a national non-profit organization; Voices Across America: A National Town Hall, a live infomercial for Hillary Clinton in 2008
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Located in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali is the tallest mountain in North America, even taller than Everest if you measure it from base to summit.At 20,310 feet above sea ...
Jingle Dancer, [13] illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu, [14] is a picture book for ages 4 and up. Published in 2000 by Morrow/HarperCollins, the book was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, [15] a runner-up for the Western Writers of America Storyteller Award, [16] and is listed as a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, [17] on the 2002 Texas 2x2 ...
Piggly Wiggly Was a Big Store. On Sept. 6, 1916, the world's first Piggly Wiggly opened to great fanfare at 79 Jefferson Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. Saunders had launched an advertising blitz in ...
In 1999, Shiloh was selected as a recommended novel for children ages nine to twelve in the Read Across America initiative. [64] In 2000, the Shiloh trilogy placed at number seven on the National Education Association's Children's Top 100 book list. Naylor was delighted that children had given her work such a high ranking.