Reading Room News

WFMZ did a story on “Barbershop Books” recently. This initiative places books in local barbershops to encourage children to read while they wait for a haircut. They are allowed to take the book home if they wish. Cops ‘n Kids’ Director Judie Dickerson is interviewed as part of the story. View the video.

The kids had a great experience learning a bit about photography and  about what police officers do with photography to collect evidence to solve a crime.   The kids did a great job of using digital cameras to find and photograph objects that were of a certain color or that started with letters that began with…

[metaslider id=1192] The calm, peaceful presence of Cooper and Bentley with owner, Diane Bennett, brought a new feel to the Reading Room on February 23 as visitors read to them and showered them with adoring attention. We hope they will visit us again soon along with our friend, Easton Police Officer Vince Bruneo.

[metaslider id=1186] During the month of February, Teresa Wright-Johnson visited the Reading Room and shared her story of having a heathy heart after open-heart surgery and what it takes to keep a healthy heart, including exercise and eating nourishing food. “Having a heart ” also included making melted crayon hearts to share with a family…

[metaslider id=1166] On March 2 children in the Pre-K class from Millie’s Creative Learning Center visited the Reading Room. They celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday by hearing One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and using their drawing and cutting skills to make hand print red fish and blue fish puppets. They did a swimming…

[metaslider id=1158] Cops ’n’ Kids of Easton welcomed 2017 with story of how the New Year is celebrated with Chinese traditions. Visitors to the Reading Room created Chinese banners expressing wishes for the New Year and took home mandarin oranges traditionally given as expression of good luck wishes for the New Year. Happy 2017 to…

Grupo Folklorica Mexicano and guest vocalist under the artistic direction of Martha Monroy, made the Reading Room come alive with song and dance. The story of Mexican culture and dance performance made possible for visiting readers to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and Mexico’s Independence. [metaslider id=1145]

Cops ’n’ Kids of Easton Reading Room celebrated National Summer Learning Day with its theme, “Color Your World with Books.” Highlighting a different color each week, Thursday, 7/14/16, the color was BLACK. Stories focused on ‘describing’ words vs ‘naming’ words, celebrating black children and connection to African origins with drumming as a musical and communication…

The spirit of Dr. Seuss lived on as Reading Room Director, Judith Dickerson, donned the Cat in the Hat costume and read the popular rhyming stories that everyone loves as part of the Cops ‘n’ Kids birthday celebration. [nivoslider id=”699″]

October being Fire Prevention Month, the brave fire fighters of the Easton Fire Department let the children visiting the Reading Room get up front and personal with them and the fire equipment and fire truck. After sharing a favorite story about Curious George and his visit to the fire department and discussing what one should…