Event: Fireland Phoenix Faerie Festival
This will be KNTR’s second year at Fireland Phoenix Faerie Festival. We simply cannot resist the magic of the realm! We will be running three children’s games this year: Ring-a-Gnome, Dragonfly Races, and Bean Bag Toss, with all proceeds benefiting Kids Need to Read. Of course, we will have our KNTR backpacks, books, Highlights and […]
Hero Comics: Heroic Deeds for KNTR
Written by Denise Gary Photographs © Bruce Matsunaga I have had my head buried in intense grant writing and program development for the past couple of months, so I am lagging behind on posting KNTR news and happenings. I think it is time I catch up on things, starting with the bodacious party Hero Comics […]
Oompa Loompas Swarm The Royale!
By Denise Gary Photographs © Robert Gary They came from Loompaland . . . innumerable Oompa Loompas . . . inundating The Royale Cinema in Mesa, Arizona this past weekend with their mischievous merrymaking! There were no Snozzwangers or Whangdoodles present to spoil the boisterous revelry. The cinema was packed with roisterers, who came to […]
Arizona High School Students Help Provide Books to Mississippi Elementary School
Written by Denise Gary It is always very moving when children work to make life better for other children they have never met. I am never sure they truly comprehend the desperate lives other children sometimes lead, but I do know that a spirit of peace, tolerance, and compassion is forged by working to help […]
Arizona Renaissance Festival Book Drive for KNTR
Kids Need to Read and the Arizona Renaissance Festival are teaming up! The festival is supporting Kids Need to Read in Royal proportions. This weekend during the festival’s VERY popular Pirate Invasion weekend (February 26th and 27th), each paying adult who brings a new children’s or young adult book to donate to Kids Need to […]