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The weather may have been cold and windy in Ithaca on Dec. 2, but that didn’t discourage Brigid Hubberman, founder and CEO of Children’s Reading Connection (CRC), from launching the nonprofit’s new initiative toward improving county literacy — Read. Sing. Love. Books! — at the site of the incoming Visions Federal Credit Union.
It’s a message you can expect to see on banners around Ithaca…Read.Sing.Love.Books! The Children’s Reading Connection is kicking off its literacy campaign to fundraise for a matching grant of $10,000. Longtime volunteer Cal Walker…
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep kids out of the classroom, the national literacy organization Children's Reading Connection (CRC) has started a new campaign aimed at bringing engaging digital learning combined with hands-on reading to students across Ithaca and Tompkins county.
Visions Federal Credit Union collaborated with Children's Reading Connection and many other community Collaborators to launch the ‘Read.Sing.Love.Books!’ campaign.
People walking through the Ithaca Commons lately, if they peer up, may notice that the large yellow crane constructing Harold's Square now bears the colorful words, "Tower Crane."
Brigid Hubberman, CEO of the startup nonprofit, Children’s Reading Connection recently sat down with executives at Scholastic and author Peter Reynolds to discuss her ideas to ensure children who don’t often have access to books might, at least, have access to one very special and foundational book—“The Word Collector.”
The Children’s Reading Connection (CRC), a national literacy organization based in Ithaca, was founded in 2017 by Trumansburg native Brigid Hubberman. The former director of Family Reading Partnership created CRC in order to “help communities create a culture of talking and reading to babies and children, primarily by collecting, developing, and sharing community-literacy program models.
If you find yourself in downtown Ithaca these days and you look up above the Harold’s Square project on the Commons, you’ll notice a bright white banner dangling from the bright yellow crane. The rainbow letters identify exactly what you’re looking at, “Tower Crane.” Free words, there for the taking. This week, Tompkins County is invited to celebrate the power of words by wearing them, singing them, reading them, and collecting them. Inspired by the book “The Word Collector,” by Peter H. Reyno
“Reach for your own words. Tell the world who you are and how you will make it better,” are the last words of the children’s book “The Word Collector” by Peter H. Reynolds. The book is about a young boy named Jerome who collects all kinds of words: big words and small words, words he doesn’t know the meaning of yet, sweet words and science words, and words with multiple syllables. Then, he shares his words with all of his friends. “The Word Collector” manages to capture the transformative power
This Thursday, Jan. 25, a local literacy enthusiast and a team of medical professionals and reading enthusiasts will kick-off a community read “Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain” by Dr. Dana Suskind, a professor of surgery at the University of Chicago. Brigid Hubberman has been helping connect the local community to books since she started The Family Reading Partnership, a non-profit organization that promotes early literacy, over 20 years ago. Now she has a new, but similar, cause
Thanks to multilingual Cornell students, 500 Ithaca-area children learning English as a second language each have a new book personalized just for them, with the English text translated into their native language.
In a corner office in Rev Startup Works with the wind whipping outside, Brigid Hubberman – in a relative calm – flips through a picture book. Warm amber colors and bright blues litter the pages, depicting children from all different corners of the world. Children with dark skin, smooth hair, short bodies. The picture book All the Colors of the Earth has become an integral part of Hubberman’s project, Children’s Reading Connection (CRC). After about 20 years of community literacy work, she’s beg
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