Imagination Library aims to spark a love of reading in KC area children, By Mara Rose Williams, September 2, 2013, Kansas City Star: “The choo-choo train story made 3-year-old Katelyn Sims giggle and wiggle and squeal. She was having a great time in her mother Elisha Sims’ lap as Mom read Watty Piper’s “The Little Engine That Could” to the toddler. “I think I can. I think I can,” Sims read. Two weeks ago, the book had arrived by mail, wrapped in plastic, at the Simses’ home in Kansas City’s Marlborough neighborhood…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty