New holiday tradition focuses on reading

Unfortunately, in a season that has already seen record-setting pre-orders for a video game, statistics on reading and literacy are alarming:
According to literacy organizations, less than half of young children in this country are read to regularly.
A high percentage of American families have no children's books in the home.
This holiday season I am putting my column where my heart is, and so I'm asking "Ask Amy" readers to celebrate by giving a book to a child, through a homegrown campaign called, "A Book on Every Bed."
Here's how it works:
Take a book.
Wrap it.
Place it on a child's bed so it's the first thing she sees on Christmas morning (or whatever holiday you celebrate).
That's it (Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune).

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