Los Angeles BookPALS

Leimert Park Book Fair

              The 7th Annual Leimert Park Village Book Fair was Saturday, 6/29/2013 with a tribute to the 1960’s. Angelina is a model BookPAL: always expressive, always fun, always dedicated! Here she is holding the attention of every child. Thank you,...

Happy 20th Anniversary, BookPALS!!!

On May 11, 2013 the Screen Actors Guild Foundation 20 Years Of BookPALS celebration was held at West Hollywood City Council Chambers in West Hollywood, California with a live celebrity reading followed by a kid’s party with balloons and desserts for everyone who attended.     BookPALS Founder Barbara Bain (MISSION IMPOSSIBLE) and actors Jack McBrayer (30 ROCK, WRECK IT RALPH, PHINEAS & FERB), Karan Brar (JESSIE), Kaitlyn Dever (LAST MAN STANDING), and Joshua Rush (PARENTAL GUIDANCE) read to kids and parents at the final event in a week long celebration for 20 Years of...

LA Times Festival of Books

For the first time BookPALS was given a booth at the 3rd Annual LA Times Festival of Books on the USC campus April20-21st. We covered lots of bases! An Interactive Storyline Online booth was set up with three laptops so kids could sample our videos. A few of our dedicated BookPALS read live to enthusiastic SoCal kids on pillows set up on the ground under the tent. We had lots of coloring pages, crayons, and glitter for the kids to enjoy. We were invited to host a segment on the main Hoy stage, too. Sag Foundation’s Storyline Online reader Hector Elizondo read “Somebody Loves You,...

Thank You, Voxy Ladies!

Thank you, thank you! Rebecca Davis, fabulous BookPAL, helped connect Voxy Ladies, a wonderful group of female voiceover artists, with BookPALS. They recently held a mixer just so the community could show their support of local at-risk schools by donating new school supplies. The response was tremendous-and our BookPALS schools can’t thank you...

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BookPALS is the Best of LA 2012!

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is excited to announce that our literacy program’s weekly story hour at the West Hollywood Library was voted Best Story Hour in LA by Los Angeles Magazine.