Santa is Comingto the LibraryA nonprofit organization in Maine, Raising Readers (raisingreaders.org), provides books to young children two months to five years old and recently published statistics demonstrating the value of reading 20 minutes a day. By the end of a school year, a child would read for 3,600 minutes, and by the end of sixth grade, that child would have read for 60 whole days. The Youth Services Department at the library not only agrees with the practice of reading to children, but also provides free books during programs like Love on a Leash. Story Time, which occurs in …

