County Kids Read Receives Grant from Emergency Communities Support Fund

County Kids Read would like to thank the County Foundation and the Community Foundations of Canada Team for approving our grant request under the Emergency Communities Support Fund.

The Fund provides financial support to charities adapting their front-line services to support vulnerable Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will enable County Kids Read to provide books and learning packages to children in need in the County and to help ensure that our most vulnerable children do not become more vulnerable during this pandemic.

If you would like to donate to County Kids Read and the important work that we do, please consider making a donation, either on a yearly or monthly basis on this website.

Online Storytime for Toddlers

Here is an online storybook list that one of our County Kids Read volunteers compiled for her 3 year-old granddaughters.  Maybe your children will enjoy them too.

Brown Bear Brown Bear  https://youtu.be/pdHCYgO9zh8 

Harry the Dirty Dog  https://www.storylineonline.net/books/harry-the-dirty-dog/ 

Madeline  https://youtu.be/JZQ3Or84G9U 

Noah's Ark  https://vimeo.com/56055146 

Owl Babies  https://vimeo.com/55971653 

Penguin  https://vimeo.com/58744168 

The Rainbow Fish  https://youtu.be/r9mryuEKkKc

The Snowy Day  https://youtu.be/QYWodTneq-Q 

The Tale of Peter Rabbit  https://youtu.be/p_LeUSA-qIg

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly  https://youtu.be/Q4TMlrXkDMI 

This is Our House  https://vimeo.com/58214461 

You're All My Favourites  https://vimeo.com/53710714 

We're Going on a Bear Hunt  https://youtu.be/Iou5LV9dRP0 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar  https://youtu.be/vkYmvxP0AJI 

The Three Bears  https://youtu.be/7C_b0-D8KMk 

Distribution of Books Through County Food Banks

During this challenging time, County Kids Read has been providing free books for children through the local food banks in the County; i.e., Wellington Storehouse, Picton United Church, and the Salvation Army. Beginning this Friday we shall also be providing free books at the Picton Food Terminal (Picton Town Hall).

Story Time with County Kids Read

Parents, caregivers and kids be sure to include a story in your day.  The County Kids Read Facebook Page and the PEC Public Library are now featuring Story Time. Every day there will be a new link to a reading of a delightful children's book such as Harry the Dirty Dog, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Please Please the Bees, Strega Nona and many more.

Family Day at Lehigh Centre in Wellington

Wendy Matthews (CKR), Liz Bosma Donovan ( Wellington Rotary) and Sally Keefe-Cohen ( CKR) at the County Kids Read  table during the Family Day celebrations in Wellington at Lehigh Arena. Wellington Rotary hosted a children-at-play centre with an online reading program, spelling bee and free books from County Kids Read. 

New Display Board at PECI

This photo of Lynne Dickie, Wendy Matthews and Duncan Payne was taken by Brenda Franks in front of an eye-catching County Kids Read display in the front entrance of PECI.

Huff Family Fund Grant

Marlene Fraser accepts a cheque on behalf of County Kids Read from Catherine Huff of the Huff Family Fund for our Cultivating Empathy Through Literacy Project. 

The project will enable County Kids Read  to arrange author visits to local schools and purchase books that facilitate social and emotional competence in children. 

PECI Grade 6 Class Visits CKR Book Room

Friday the 13th was not unlucky for grade 6 students from Prince Edward Collegiate Institute. They enjoyed a visit to the County Kids Read book room and every student took home a book they had chosen. Their teacher reports, “The children were so excited to have a new book - and how lovely for them to get a gift right before the holidays.”

Grade 6 students from PECI give thumbs up for new books to read over the holidays

A Gift of Reading from Wellington Book Worms

Anne Preston with members of the Wellington Book Worms. The members of this book club purchased and donated new children’s books to County Kids Read at their Christmas luncheon.

County Kids Read Helps Out the Angel Tree Campaign

Every year since the early 1980’s the Children’s Foundation through its Angel Tree Campaign has helped Prince Edward County families, who are unable to afford gifts on their own, have gifts for Christmas. This year County Kids Read was happy to be part of the tradition by donating boxes of new books to Kinsmen Hall in Benson Park where Susan Rose and her volunteer angels try to make sure that every child in the County has a merry Christmas.

Susan Rose and volunteer accept boxes of books from County Kids Read for the Angel Tree Campaign 2019