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America Reads Challenge: Ready*Set*Read for Families - April 1997

Acknowledgments

This booklet for families of children from birth through age five was developed by the AmeriCorps Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center as a project of the Corporation for National Service; the U.S. Department of Education; and the Child Care Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

We wish to acknowledge Derry Koralek as the principal author of this volume, with assistance from Ray Collins and Betty McLeod of the AmeriCorps Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center; Margaret McLaughlin and Jim Ekstrom of the Corporation for National Service; and Pat McKee, Alan Ginsburg, Adriana de Kanter, Val Plisko, Susan Thompson-Hoffman, Manny Smith, Brenda Long, Jessica Ellsworth, and Corey Chatis of the U.S. Department of Education.

Others who assisted in the production of this booklet include Anne Goldstein, Director, National Child Care Information Center; Jewel Bazilio-Bellegarde, Corporation for National Service; and Joan Lombardi, Jennifer Chang, and Lillian Sugarman of the Child Care Bureau.

We also wish to acknowledge the graphic design work of Eve Guianan and Loren Holtkamp of Books and Beyond, with production oversight by Ellie Topolovac and Sue Holtkamp of Books and Beyond.
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