2006 Storymobile Kickoff Event
The 2006 Storymobile Kickoff was a huge success as we launched the Storymobile and another summer full of reading events for the children of Boston. Some of our local celbrity readers included: Mayor Thomas M. Menino and wife, Angela Menino; fomer Celtic player JoJo White; Red Sox owner John Henry & family; and CBS4's Robin Hamilton.
All pictures are courtesy of the City of Boston Mayor's Office.
From left to right: Mary Rafferty of Verizon; Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston; Joseph Abboud, men’s fashion designer and South Boston native; Bob Reynolds, Vice Chairman & Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity Investments; and Theresa Lynn, Executive Director of ReadBoston.
New Storymobile donated to ReadBoston from the Highland Street Foundation – June of 2006.
July 13, 2006
Kids wiggle to Wiggle by Doreen Cronin.
Jessica Kaufman of ReadBoston reads No, David! by David Shannon.
July 20, 2006
Former Boston Celtic JoJo White & ReadBoston's Executive Director Theresa Lynn.
JoJo reads The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka.
Storyteller Merrill Kohlhofer and the kids ROAR over an African jungle story.
July 27, 2006
Boston children's author Seneca Clark reads her book Lily and the Imaginary Zoo
with storyteller Libby Frank.
Seneca Clark, Libby Frank & ReadBoston interns.
August 3, 2006
Angela Menino joins John & Peggy Henry to read Fenway Park 1, 2, 3 by
Red Sox Wives.
Peggy Henry gets help reading Billy's Bucket, by Kes Gray & Gary Parsons, from ReadBoston's Erin Smith.
Kids enjoy Boston-based Lost! by David McPhail & Red Sox hats from team owner John Henry & family.
August 10 , 2006
Boston children's author Irene Smalls tells some of her own stories about family.
August 17, 2006
Chldren's author "Alphabetman" Jerry Pallotta finds brave volunteers!
CBS4's Robin Hamilton & Angela Menino read The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle.
The kids help tell the story, too!