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• Children who live near or below the poverty line have much lower average reading scores than their peers.
• Lack of basic literary skills is linked with academic failure, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, delinquency, unemployment, low productivity, and welfare dependence.
• Parents who can not read tend to have children who struggle with reading, thus perpetuating the cycle of poverty.
• Providing books to children is a simple, effective, and inexpensive way to promote language and literacy growth.
• Owning books is a critical feature of every child's intellectual development.
• Reading aloud to children is the single most effective parent practice for encouraging language and literacy development.
• A child's pride in learning to read is a key element in achieving literacy. By providing children with new books to keep, Books for Kids enhances the relationship between parent and child and the relationship between child and book.
• Children with books at home are eight times more likely to list reading as one of their favourite activities.