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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of a day when there will be a real playground in her own neighborhood, a little girl is ecstatic when she learns that a local playground has been planned, in a story inspired by the construction of the first playground built by the KaBOOM! national nonprofit.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sadly, play is disappearing from the lives of far too many children. Researchers point to many reasons for this. Too few places to play. Too much time spent watching television, playing video games, and online. Lack of recess in our schools. Unsafe neighborhoods. All these are indeed reasons children are playing less and less and spending way too little time outdoors. The nonprofit group, KaBOOM is working hard to address these issues, because...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In 1995, Darell Hammond read an article in the Washington Post about an unthinkable tragedy: Two young children suffocated in a car on a hot summer day in southeast Washington, D.C. The story indicated that the children had nowhere to play; in the absence of a playground, they had climbed into an abandoned car. Reading the article fueled Hammond's sense of injustice, and his life's mission came into focus. Hammond founded KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit...
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