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PHOTO CAPTION: (L to R) \u201cLittle Green\u201d Author Arnold Rudnick and RIFSoCal Executive Director Carol Henault.<\/em><\/p>\n
That is, in fact, the mission of the 501(c)(3) organization Reading Is Fundamental of Southern California (www.rifsocal.org<\/a>). The special edition, celebrating the 50th anniversary of RIFSoCal and the 10th anniversary of \u201cLittle Green,\u201d is also available on amazon.com through the end of 2022. Paraphrase has pledged all proceeds from the anniversary edition to RIFSoCal.<\/p>\n \u201cLittle Green\u201d is a picture-book for 0-7 year olds, written by Arnold Rudnick, with illustrations by Marcelo Gorenman, featuring a little green frog on a quest to be special. He hops around from animal to animal asking \u201cIsn\u2019t it possible?\u201d he can be one of them and do the special things they do. While the reader learns animal groups, skills, traits and sounds, Little Green learns almost anything is possible, but he must start by being himself.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope that someday \u2018Little Green\u2019 and \u2018Isn\u2019t it possible?\u2019 will be as familiar to children, and empowering, as \u2018I Think I Can!\u2019 from \u2018The Little Engine That Could,\u2019\u201d Rudnick says. \u201cReading makes ALMOST anything possible. I am really excited to partner with Reading Is Fundamental of Southern California on this mission of literacy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are delighted to thank Arnold Rudnick for his most generous donation of \u2018Little Green,\u2019\u201d says Carol Henault, Executive Director of RIFSoCal. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to share this inspirational story with the children in our Motivational Reading Program. Inspiring children\u2019s passion for reading is the greatest gift we can give them on their personal road to success. That, and frogs.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can always use more frog stories! As Los Angeles and Orange County\u2019s largest children\u2019s literacy organization, RIFSoCal works every day to share the magic of reading for fun and pleasure with our most vulnerable children. As of our 50th anniversary of celebrating literacy for all children, we will have served 1.7M children, and provided them with more than 5.3M books.\u201d<\/p>\n To learn more visit: https:\/\/www.rifsocal.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n About Reading Is Fundamental of Southern California:<\/strong><\/p>\n Reading Is Fundamental of Southern California (RIFSoCal) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote literacy and motivate children to read by providing new books to create home libraries for underserved children in Southern California.<\/p>\n About Paraphrase, LLC:<\/strong><\/p>\n Paraphrase, LLC, is a boutique publishing company promoting literacy with a mission to create thought-provoking media that educates, entertains, and inspires. Their motto is \u201cRead a book, Read a mind.\u201d™ Learn more at: http:\/\/www.paraphrasellc.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter @RIFSoCal @isntitpossible<\/p>\n![\"LITTLE](\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0505-s2p-little-green-book-800x600.jpg\")
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![https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/22-0505-s2p-arnold-and-carol-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nCaption: (L to R) \u201cLittle Green\u201d Author Arnold Rudnick and RIFSoCal Executive Director Carol Henault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 5, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Paraphrase, LLC, the publisher of “Little Green” (ISBN: 978-0981587943) by Arnold Rudnick, is donating 500 copies of a special anniversary edition to Reading Is Fundamental of Southern California (RIFSoCal). For 10 years, “Little Green” has been asking, “Isn’t it possible?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6564,"featured_media":81472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,12804,1,10,175,37,307,187,56],"tags":[6786,6854,18128],"class_list":["post-81478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-publishing-news","category-ap","category-business-news","category-california-news","category-corporate-social-responsibility-news","category-entertainment-news","category-family-parenting-news","category-los-angeles-news","category-non-profit-news","tag-arnold-rudnick","tag-childrens-book","tag-illustrator-marcelo-gorenman","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3642,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/22-0505-s2p-arnold-and-carol-300dpi.jpg\"){kind=link}