Spread the Word Nevada: Kids to Kids Celebrates Distribution of One-Millionth Book

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(Free-Press-Release.com) September 6, 2008 -- Las Vegas, Nevada – Spread the Word Nevada: Kids to Kids, a nonprofit literacy program serving at-risk children and their families in Southern Nevada, will celebrate the distribution of its one-millionth book at an event on September 15 at Sunrise Acres Elementary School. The assembly will start at 9:00 am. Sunrise Acres is located at 211 28th Street, Las Vegas, NV 89101.

Comedian Magician Mac King, star of "The Mac King Comedy Magic Show" at Harrah's Las Vegas and a children's literacy advocate, will make a special appearance at the celebration. Sunrise Acres was the first school "adopted" by Kids to Kids in 2001. King will distribute the one-millionth book to a lucky child, as well as, highlighting the magic of books by performing magic for students. He will also donate a magic book, Mac King’s Magic in a Minute Great Big Ol’ Book-O-Magic, and a family-4 pack of show tickets to two lucky students. Mac King has been an ardent supporter of Kids to Kids since 2006.

Lisa Habighorst, Executive Director of Spread the Word Nevada: Kids to Kids, states, "Reaching the one-millionth book distribution mark is a momentous milestone for us and we wouldn't have been able to accomplish this with out the support of the community and organizations that believe in the importance of children's literacy."

Quick Facts about the Million Books Distributed by Kids to Kids

▪ The average size of donated books is nine inches long. If you laid all of the donated books end to end, the books would reach from Las Vegas, Nevada all the way to Area 51
in Arizona, 135 miles away. (That is 750,000 feet, or 142 miles, of books. A mile is 5,280 feet.)

▪ If the average donated book has 91 pages, and a tree can produce about 50,000 pages, the Kids to Kids program of giving gently used books to children has saved more than 1,800 trees!

▪ If you stacked all the donated books (an average of half-an-inch thick) into a giant pile, the pile would be taller than 40 Stratosphere towers stacked on top of one other. (That is 41,666 feet of books. The Stratosphere is 1,049 feet tall.)

▪ The distributed books have an average of 60 pages each. If you sat down and read one page an hour, it would take you 6,849 years to read each book.

Kids to Kids, a flagship program of Spread the Word Nevada, Inc., a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) corporation, serves at-risk children and helps create home library collections. Home libraries promote academic achievement and higher self-esteem, which impacts lifelong success. Since 2001, the program has distributed more than one million books and has served more than 95,000 children in the Las Vegas Valley and Clark County School District. Visit www.SpreadtheWordNevada.org to learn more.

To cover this event, please contact Lisa Habighorst at (702) 564-7809. To interview Mac King, please contact Leslie Thuet of Preferred Public Relations at (702) 254-5704 or leslie@preferredpublicrelations.

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