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10 Tips for Raising Readers

Empowering parents and teachers by providing the tools to engage children in a lifetime of reading. 

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Fran Hawk is the author of the children’s books COUNT DOWN TO FALL and THE STORY OF THE H.L. HUNLEY AND QUEENIE’S COIN, which have won numerous awards including the “Mom’s Choice” Gold Medal.  She is a retired school librarian with a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science.  She writes a highly-acclaimed newspaper column about children’s books and reading.  Hawk lives near Charleston, South Carolina, and is the mother of four children, grandmother to six, all of whom love to read. 

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THE RAISING READERS PROJECT is a literacy initiative serving Charleston County and the surrounding areas in the South Carolina Lowcountry. 

Through customized workshops for parents, teachers, and other caregivers, we empower adults in their efforts to engage the children in their lives in a lifetime of reading. With her successful book TEN TIPS FOR RAISING READERS at the program's core, local author Fran Hawk draws on her thirty years experience as a librarian to make reading fun for everyone, parent and child alike, and in doing so, to improve literacy and lives in our community. 

THE RAISING READERS PROJECT is an initiative of The Palmetto Project.