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A drive is underway to establish an Imagination Library that would supply a free book each month for Union County children from birth to five years of age.

Malinda Beauchamp, who heads the Community Education program for the Union County Public School District, is spearheading the drive and spoke about the program at a recent Morganfield Lions Club meeting.

Beauchamp said she is in hopes of Union County becoming only the second school district in the state of Kentucky to establish such a library. The library has been established in Henderson County.
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Eilir Rowan writes "I read about this in the Press and Sun-Bulletin's PressConnects.com.

Flat Stanley is a boy from the 1964 book by the same name who learns to embrace his difference--being flat--by making the most of it. Taking the book as inspiration, librarians and students are helping him travel the world by mailing him all over. Templates of the character can be downloaded from the Flat Stanley Project and given or sent to others, who then continue his journey by mail, keep a log, send pictures, etc. It's a variation on the 'garden gnome' theme that really captures kids' imaginations as they track where their Stanleys have gone."

You can't take a television screen to bed, but you can take a book to bed. Agree or disagree, the philosophy behind the statement remains unchanged. Along with it, the fact that most children today will, at any given moment, choose to ogle at a screen, be it TV or computer, than take the pain to read through the series of the Mallory Towers , charts out how reading is losing out to television. Once again a debate between the book and the screen — and once again there are no answers, only suggestions.

More From The Times Of India.

"The parents would rather have their children reading course books than story books. There needs to be an attempt to refocus on the importance of the space that can only be filled by fantastical tales and the flight of imagination,"

A nice Piece From The Akron Beacon Journal covers educators who toil daily to make reading fun. They use innovative methods to try to instill a love of books in students.

"I love children and have a passion for them, especially for low-income children,'' Wilson said. ``My heart goes out to parents who don't know how to teach their children to read. I believe children should be read to."