Eau Claire author B.J. Hollars is currently co-leading a fundraising effort to keep putting books like Katie Venit's “Forts” in the hands of kids in the Eau Claire area for years to come.

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A Wisconsin early childhood literacy nonprofit is helping parents and children make reading part of their daily routine, teaming up with libraries and clinics to give out “prescriptions to read” during medical checkups.

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It's been close to a year since a judge ordered Wisconsin's Department of Corrections to put in place a program for incarcerated moms and their infants. But the ACLU says the prison system has yet to make meaningful progress toward complying with that mandate.

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