Office of the Mayor
Proclamation
Lawrence, Kansas
WHEREAS: Reading is the cornerstone of education, allowing each individual to pursue knowledge through life long learning; and
WHEREAS: Reading to babies, toddlers and preschoolers can have an incredible impact on their reading capacity and development and affects how successful they are in school as well as how well they do throughout their lives; and
WHEREAS: Kansas Reads…to Preschoolers, a One Book, One State program under the leadership of Governor Kathleen Sebelius and Christie Pearson Brandau, Kansas State Librarian, is asking adults to “begin at the beginning” and read to a preschooler to set them on the road to a lifetime of reading; and
WHEREAS: The book, No Matter What, written and illustrated by Debi Gliori, has been chosen for this year’s Kansas Reads…to Preschoolers project, and the goal is to read to all children under the age of five in the state during National Children’s Book Week, November 14 – 20, 2005;
WHEREAS: The Lawrence Public Library and the Hughes Carnegie Center Group are cooperating in the goal to promote and facilitate reading to all children under the age of five in Lawrence, KS during Children's Book Week;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dennis “Boog” Highberger, Mayor of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, do hereby proclaim November 14 -20, 2005 to be
and urge all citizens to join in celebration of the Kansas Reads…to Preschoolers program and read to a tot, “No Matter What.”
November 8, 2005