Pizza With a Purpose Benefiting Kids Need to Read

Come and join Kids Need to Read and The Page Coach at California Pizza Kitchen’s Dana Park location for a day of activities, food, and fun! KNTR will be on site from 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM handing out Highlights for Children magazine and coloring pages to the kids! When you present the flyer to […]

Join Kids Need to Read for Phoenix Comicon 2017! (Schedule of Activities)

May 25–28, 2017 Phoenix Convention Center 100 N 3rd St, Phoenix, AZ KNTR Booth 1078 Celebrating eight years of partnership as the sponsored charity of Phoenix Comicon (PHXCC), Kids Need to Read (KNTR) is thrilled to announce a fantastic line-up of events for Phoenix Comicon 2017! PHXCC has prioritized support for KNTR since the organization’s […]

Awesome Indeed! A Huge Book Donation for Globe, Arizona!

By Gary Mlodzik Photographs by Denise Gary When I call a library in a high poverty community and offer the Grow Your Library program, which includes 200 books for the library, along with a story time event and books for participating children to keep—all free of charge—the response goes one of two ways: happy for […]

NBAZ Charities Provides $1,300 Grant to READ Together

Kids Need to Read is pleased to announce it has received a $1,300 grant from NBAZ Charities for the READ Together program. National Bank of Arizona (NB|AZ), the state’s largest full service community bank, founded NBAZ Charities in 2015 and began awarding grants in 2016. Kids Need to Read was much honored to be among […]

Join KNTR on the High Seas for Pirate Adventures!

AHOY, ME HEARTIES! BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES! February 25th and 26th will be Arizona Renaissance Festival‘s Pirates & High Seas Adventures! Ye should be joinin’ Kids Need to Read in celebrating 29 years of sailing the seas with the Arizona Renaissance Festival by bringing your plunder of two (2) *NEW* children’s books to fill the […]