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Redshaw School Celebrates Author Day

Students were encouraged to read throughout the summer.

Students were urged to keep reading throughout the summer months at a literacy-filled day at the A.C. Redshaw School on Friday.

Children's author Lisa Funari Willever talked about her books, her life and how closely the stories of each are intertwined.

Willever, a Trenton native, is the author of such books as "Easter Chicken," and "Everybody Moos at Cows," the latter of which was featured on the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

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Willever is also the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award and been named to the NJ Battle of the Books for three years.

Willever urged the students to spend the summer reading, writing and visiting spots around New Jersey to get a better look at the state they are from.

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At the same time as Willever's presentation, New Brunswick Free Public Library Children's Librarian Darby DeCicco discussed the library's summer reading program.

Students enrolled in the program are encouraged to read books, magazines or comic books, and track the number of hours they spend reading.

They then come to the library to report on what they read, and log their time.

DeCicco said that during the 2011 summer reading program, 500 kids ages 12 and under and 75 teens ages 13 to 18 signed up for the program.

After five hours, they are rewarded with a prize. Subsequent prizes are given out for other hour milestones, culminating with an invitation to the summer reading fair after 25 hours of reading.

The student who logs the most hours out of all the program participants will win a football signed by the N.Y. Giants, DeCicco said.

For more information on the summer reading program, visit the library website.


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