{"id":23185,"date":"2025-08-26T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/23185\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:01:08","slug":"help-green-bay-kids-build-their-first-home-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/23185\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Green Bay kids build their first home libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\">\n<li>Lincoln Elementary&#8217;s &#8220;If You Give a Child a Book&#8221; campaign aims to provide 10 books per student to build home libraries, with some children receiving their first-ever books to own.<\/li>\n<li>For just $6, donors can put a brand-new Scholastic book directly into the hands of a Green Bay student, with every dollar going to Lincoln Elementary children.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc26.com\/giveabook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click HERE<\/a> or text <b>READ26<\/b> to <b>50155<\/b> to contribute to the campaign and help open a world of possibilities for local students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes all it takes is one book to open up a world of possibility. A powerful partnership is bringing that opportunity back to students at Lincoln Elementary in Green Bay through the annual <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc26.com\/giveabook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;If You Give a Child a Book&#8221;<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, a collaboration between NBC 26 and the Scripps Howard Fund, aims to help local kids build their home libraries and develop a love of reading. With construction underway at Lincoln Elementary to accommodate more students, something special is returning this fall alongside the new school year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the campaign successfully filled bookshelves for every student at Lincoln Elementary, creating an unexpected buzz throughout the school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The buzz and the electricity that happened throughout the school when the kids were talking about the book fair coming, and that was something that we did not anticipate,&#8221; said Cory Horn, literacy coach at Lincoln Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>Educators say that excitement translates into powerful educational outcomes: improved vocabulary, stronger comprehension, and greater confidence. For some students, it marked their first time owning a book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the children came to me and he&#8217;s like, &#8216;Mrs. Horn, you&#8217;re not going to believe it. I don&#8217;t even have a book at home,'&#8221; Horn said.<\/p>\n<p>The impact extends beyond the classroom and into families. Principal Janay Banks-Wilson shared how parents have responded to the program.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756166468_217_\" alt=\"Pages of possibilities: NBC 26's 'If You Give a Child A Book' campaign sparks joy and learning\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NBC 26<\/p>\n<p>        Pages of possibilities: NBC 26&#8217;s &#8216;If You Give a Child A Book&#8217; campaign sparks joy and learning<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had parents at that meeting talk about the book. The parent is like, hey, my kid came home, do we owe anything?&#8221; Banks-Wilson said. &#8220;We explain the partnership with the Scripps Foundation, and to hear how thankful they were because they didn&#8217;t have new cool books, and they were never able to purchase books at a Scholastic book fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For only $6, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc26.com\/giveabook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">donors<\/a> can put a brand-new Scholastic book into the hands of a child in Green Bay. Every dollar goes directly to Lincoln Elementary students, with a goal of providing 10 books for every child to build their very own home library.<\/p>\n<p>For some students, these will be the first books they&#8217;ve ever owned. That gift can spark imagination, build confidence and change a child&#8217;s story, not just in school, but for life.<\/p>\n<p>To donate, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc26.com\/giveabook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a> or text READ26 to 50155. One small donation can open a world of possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lincoln Elementary&#8217;s &#8220;If You Give a Child a Book&#8221; campaign aims to provide 10 books per student to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[19677,359,19678,19679,18,117,19680,19681,19,17,19682,19683,19684,2459,19685],"class_list":{"0":"post-23185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-book-donation","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-childhood-literacy","11":"tag-educational","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-green-bay-schools","15":"tag-home-library","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-lincoln-eleme-tary","19":"tag-literacy-campaign","20":"tag-nbc-26","21":"tag-reading","22":"tag-scholastic-books"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}