Dickens Reads

We are missing our Dickens kids! These are the sweet handmade gifts they gave the volunteers on the last day of tutoring. The artworks are made from flower petals and leaves, and the kids wrote "Thank you for helping us grow" on each one. 🌻🌱🌿💐😪

As we wind up a year of amazing progress with our Dickens Reads scholars, we were proud to bring in a real-life author and illustrator for them to meet! Our guests were Clothilde Ewing and Lynn Gaines--two Cleveland-born talents who have just published a lovely children's book with Simon & Schuster, "Stella Keeps The Sun Up". 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Their very presence reaffirmed for our kids that they can achieve anything! And their imaginative story about little Stella reminded the students of our main message -- reading is fun!