With Each
Magazine Subscription Purchased, Cricket will Donate One to
a Child in
Need in Partnership with Two Award-Winning Literacy Charities:
Libraries
Without Borders and Parent-Child
Home Program
Visit DoubletheGiving.com and Join a Charitable Movement
Guaranteed
to Spark a Lifetime Love of Reading!
(November 7, 2016) -- This
holiday season, Cricket Media, and its award-winning family of ad-free kids
magazines including BABYBUG, LADYBUG, SPIDER and CRICKET, invite gift-givers to
double the reading and double the joy with their new "Double the
Giving" Campaign. Throughout this November and December, any
gift-giver purchasing an annual print subscription to one of four different
Cricket publications will also deliver the gift of reading to a child in an
underserved community through two award-winning, charitable partners: Libraries
Without Borders and Parent-Child Home Program, both 2016 Library of Congress
Literacy Award Winners.
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Since 1973, the magazines in the Cricket
family have sparked curiosity, inspired creativity and opened worlds of
possibility in kids ages 3-16. Simply stack a year's worth of one of
Cricket's magazines in front of a child, and they'll see months of great
stories and interactive features; adults will see a lifetime foundation of
literacy and learning. But many children do not have access to these
experiences, and Cricket wants to help.
Beginning this month, generous gift-givers
seeking to give the life-long gift of reading are invited to visit DoubletheGiving.com. There, they'll have the
opportunity to join a movement guaranteed to spark a lifetime love of reading
through Cricket's "Double the Giving" Campaign, Through the purchase
of specially-discounted subscription bundles to BABYBUG (ages 6 mos.-3),
LADYBUG (ages 3-6), SPIDER (ages 6-9) or CRICKET (ages 9-14) for $29.95
(regularly priced at $33.95), gift-givers can select between two charitable
organizations to receive another 9-issue annual print subscription.
Libraries Without Borders supports
community development in 20 countries around the world through the promotion of
literacy. And, since 1965, the Parent-Child Home Program has been
providing under-resourced families with the necessary skills and tools to help
their children thrive in school and in life, developing school readiness in
children with disadvantages by combining intensive home visits with weekly
gifts of books and educational materials. Donated subscriptions through the
"Buy One, Donate One" program will deliver BABYBUG, LADYBUG, SPIDER,
AND CRICKET to families in more than 400 high-need, underserved communities
throughout the United States, opening windows of possibility, creativity and
wonder for thousands of children across the country.
"Our mission at Cricket is for our
magazines to be read and enjoyed by as many families as possible," said
CEO Stephanie Sharis.
"Spreading the joy of learning is at the heart of this campaign. And with
the help of generous consumers, it's our goal to reach 10,000 new kids in under-served communities across the country, making for a very bright holiday
season for all".
About Cricket Media
Cricket Media is an education media
company that provides award-winning content on a safe and secure learning
network for children, families and teachers across the world. Cricket
Media's 11 popular media brands for toddlers to teens include Babybug®, Ladybug®, Cricket™ and
Cobblestone™. The Company's innovative web-based K12 tools for school and
home include the ePals community
and virtual classroom for global collaboration as well as In2Books®, an
e-Mentoring program that builds reading, writing and critical thinking
skills. Cricket Media serves millions of teachers, students and parents in
over 200 countries and territories through its platform and NeuPals, its joint venture with China's
leading IT services company Neusoft.
Cricket Media also licenses its content and platform to top publishing and
educational companies worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.cricketmedia.com.
About Libraries Without Borders
Libraries Without Borders (LWB) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan
organization devoted to facilitating the growth of libraries in the
developing world. Currently
active in 20 different countries, LWB recognizes that access to knowledge is a key factor
in social and economic development. By facilitating the growth of libraries
across the globe, LWB aims to provide the knowledge that is the engine of human
development. Libraries Without Borders and Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (BSF) form an international
network of organizations working together to promote knowledge-based
development in under-served regions of the world.
About Parent-Child Home Program
The Parent-Child Home Program supports
under-resourced families in preparing their young children for school success,
by combining intensive home visits with weekly gifts of books and educational
materials. Early-literacy specialists model good practices to educate
parents about the importance of parent-child interaction, give them the tools
needed to inculcate early literacy skills in their children, and encourage them
to see themselves as active participants in their children's educations.
In this program, community-based early learning specialists visit participating
families twice a week for two years. When families complete the program,
the staff helps parents enroll their children in quality preschools or
kindergartens. The program has been replicated in 400 high-need
communities in 14 states and in Chile, Canada, Ireland and Bermuda.
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I would pick the Lady Bug magazine for our grandson ages 3 to 6. I know that he would love it!
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