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#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks
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maggiekimline.bsky.social ⟭⟬ MaggieKimLine⁷ ⟬⟭ 💜 @maggiekimline.bsky.social · Sep 8
Since the 50s, every child in the Netherlands has grown up with the stories about Jip & Janneke, two kindergartners going on small daily life adventures.
The book I’m holding here was given to me when I was born in 1980, and I read to my kids from it as well. The current edition has the same cover.
September 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks
#ReadWithRM 💜
cl-crystalsnow7.bsky.social cl ᵇᵗˢ⁷⊙⊝⊜ ᴬᴿᴵᴿᴬᴺᴳ @cl-crystalsnow7.bsky.social · Sep 9
"The Magic Faraway Tree" by Enid Blyton

One reviewer describes "The Magic Faraway Tree" perfectly: "There is a child in so many of us. In the case of those who have read the Faraway Tree series, that child may never want to grow up."

#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks #ReadWithRM💜
September 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks
#ReadWithRM 💜
roseksjs.bsky.social Chrissy⁷ @roseksjs.bsky.social · Sep 10
🌼 loves this one: Hairy Maclary Scattercat. It's about a boisterous dog who just wants to chase the neighbourhood cats. There are some great rhymes, and the twist at the end always makes me laugh. I've read Hairy Maclary that many times that I basically know it by heart 🤣
September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks
#ReadWithRM 💜
dastardlypale.bsky.social Amy⁷ @dastardlypale.bsky.social · Sep 12
This was probably the number one book I made my parents read to me when I was very young. It holds such fond memories for me and no doubt contributed to my lifelong love of reading 💜
September 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks
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nat-is-here.bsky.social 🥐☕️⁷ @nat-is-here.bsky.social · Sep 8
Les malheurs de Sophie (1858), written by La Comtesse de Ségur.
Reading, offering and transmitting the books of the Countess of Ségur and, in particular, Sophie’s misadventures, is an old tradition in the family. From mother and grandmother to daughter and granddaughter. A classic.
September 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks
#ReadWithRM 💜
athelas81.bsky.social Arirangthelas⁷ 💜⊙⊝⊜ ⟭⟬E ARE B⟬⟭CK @athelas81.bsky.social · Sep 8
It's impossible for me to pick a favorite (I'm an elementary school librarian) but I think non-fiction is under represented and I adore this:
September 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks
#ReadWithRM 💜
martamoon.bsky.social Marta Moon ⁷ 💜 @martamoon.bsky.social · Sep 12
“Un agujero en la alambrada” (a whole in the fence) a book by François Sautereau was one of my childhood favourites. Grisón lives in Epnoi and himself and his friends always try to cross over the fence into the forbidden forest. What awaits over the fence? 😁
#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks #ReadWithRM
September 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
Let’s celebrate RM’s birthday! 🎂

#ReadWithRM is a 7-day fundraiser supporting Start a Library Trust (SAL), a Kenya-based org who aims to improve literacy rates and educational outcomes by fostering a lifelong love for reading and learning 💜

Donate ➡️ bit.ly/ReadWithRM
On the left third of the poster is a photo of RM outside on the street wearing a track suit jacket and black pants. He is jumping with his right arm pointed straight up in the air. The rest of the poster has a beige background with animated flowers along the bottom. Text elements include: the campaign hashtag Read with RM, OIAA birthday campaign 2025, Start a Library Trust logo with their motto “A library in every school”, a description of the campaign and websites for the charity and OIAA. The campaign text reads: Start a Library Trust (SAL) is a Kenya-based non-profit founded in 2012 with a mission to champion literacy in Africa by creating thriving communities of learners and teachers. They collaborate with schools to set up sustainable libraries, providing access to books, educational resources, and literacy programs. SAL aims to improve literacy rates and educational outcomes in underserved communities by fostering a lifelong love for reading and learning. SAL’s new campaign Refresh the Shelves is just in time for International Literacy Week celebrations (Sept 8th-12th). Some of SAL’s earliest libraries, the very ones that started their program, are running out of stories. The shelves are still standing, but the books have been well loved and are now old, torn, and too few to keep the magic alive. The campaign looks to revive 20 of their oldest libraries.
September 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
To date Start A Library Trust has 312 libraries in 24 counties impacting over half a million children nationwide. Their goal is to get to have a footprint in all 47 counties in Kenya.

#ReadWithRM
Donate: bit.ly/ReadWithRM
OIAA Form: bit.ly/ReadWithRMForm

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A map of Kenya with counties identified on the map as locations of their libraries.
September 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Happy birthday, RM! 🥰🫶🎂

To our lovely Namjoonie, hoping for you lots of love and happiness, we wish you the most fulfilling year.

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

#HappyRMDay #ReadWithRM
September 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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📚 SAL’s initiatives include establishing vibrant primary school libraries, training school communities, running engaging literacy programs, and advocating for equitable literacy policies.

Donate ➡️ bit.ly/ReadWithRM
Form ➡️ bit.ly/ReadWithRMForm
At the top of the poster is the text #ReadWithRM and Start a Library’s logo. The poster is beige and has photos from Start a Library of a school library, teachers in a training session, and many school kids lined up outside in the school courtyard. Text on the page says: Start a Library programs include: Establishing vibrant libraries: Providing underserved children in public primary schools with age-appropriate, locally authored story books in both English and Kiswahili. Training school communities: Educating teachers in library management skills and techniques to foster literacy. Running engaging literacy programs: Working to amplify voices of children, create teachers as champions for reading, and advocate for equitable literacy policies.
September 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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oneinanarmy.bsky.social One in An ARMY Charity Projects 💜 @oneinanarmy.bsky.social · Sep 6
Let’s celebrate RM’s birthday! 🎂

#ReadWithRM is a 7-day fundraiser supporting Start a Library Trust (SAL), a Kenya-based org who aims to improve literacy rates and educational outcomes by fostering a lifelong love for reading and learning 💜

Donate ➡️ bit.ly/ReadWithRM
On the left third of the poster is a photo of RM outside on the street wearing a track suit jacket and black pants. He is jumping with his right arm pointed straight up in the air. The rest of the poster has a beige background with animated flowers along the bottom. Text elements include: the campaign hashtag Read with RM, OIAA birthday campaign 2025, Start a Library Trust logo with their motto “A library in every school”, a description of the campaign and websites for the charity and OIAA. The campaign text reads: Start a Library Trust (SAL) is a Kenya-based non-profit founded in 2012 with a mission to champion literacy in Africa by creating thriving communities of learners and teachers. They collaborate with schools to set up sustainable libraries, providing access to books, educational resources, and literacy programs. SAL aims to improve literacy rates and educational outcomes in underserved communities by fostering a lifelong love for reading and learning. SAL’s new campaign Refresh the Shelves is just in time for International Literacy Week celebrations (Sept 8th-12th). Some of SAL’s earliest libraries, the very ones that started their program, are running out of stories. The shelves are still standing, but the books have been well loved and are now old, torn, and too few to keep the magic alive. The campaign looks to revive 20 of their oldest libraries.
September 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
Only 12 hours in and already 128 ARMY have donated to #ReadWithRM in support of @startalibrary 🔥🤯 Thank you ARMY for all your sharing and supporting to get us off to such a dynamite start 🥰

"I never thought I could finish a whole book; now I've read ten!" - Amina, Grade 5
oneinanarmy.bsky.social One in An ARMY Charity Projects 💜 @oneinanarmy.bsky.social · Sep 6
Let’s celebrate RM’s birthday! 🎂

#ReadWithRM is a 7-day fundraiser supporting Start a Library Trust (SAL), a Kenya-based org who aims to improve literacy rates and educational outcomes by fostering a lifelong love for reading and learning 💜

Donate ➡️ bit.ly/ReadWithRM
On the left third of the poster is a photo of RM outside on the street wearing a track suit jacket and black pants. He is jumping with his right arm pointed straight up in the air. The rest of the poster has a beige background with animated flowers along the bottom. Text elements include: the campaign hashtag Read with RM, OIAA birthday campaign 2025, Start a Library Trust logo with their motto “A library in every school”, a description of the campaign and websites for the charity and OIAA. The campaign text reads: Start a Library Trust (SAL) is a Kenya-based non-profit founded in 2012 with a mission to champion literacy in Africa by creating thriving communities of learners and teachers. They collaborate with schools to set up sustainable libraries, providing access to books, educational resources, and literacy programs. SAL aims to improve literacy rates and educational outcomes in underserved communities by fostering a lifelong love for reading and learning. SAL’s new campaign Refresh the Shelves is just in time for International Literacy Week celebrations (Sept 8th-12th). Some of SAL’s earliest libraries, the very ones that started their program, are running out of stories. The shelves are still standing, but the books have been well loved and are now old, torn, and too few to keep the magic alive. The campaign looks to revive 20 of their oldest libraries.
September 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
Day 2 of #ReadWithRM and 69 more have joined to raise $7626 for @startalibrary 🤩 That supplies 381 kids with a storybook all week at school!

Thank you ARMY for sharing your favorite books 😍 Seeing them is such a joy and we will continue posting responses over the coming days💜
Purple poster with #ReadWithRM One in an ARMY Birthday Campaign 2025 in the top left corner. In the middle are two drawings of white stacks of books. The left stack has a book on the bottom with "New Donors" written on the spine and the number 69 on the top book. The right stack has the words 270 total donors written on the top book. At the bottom is a text box reading "$20 can purchase 5 storybooks for one child to read for each day of the week." and there is a purple cartoon flower decorating the text box.
September 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
The first day of #ReadWithRM is in the books 😇 and so far 201 ARMY have donated in support of @startalibrary with so many more sharing 💜

With $5,856 raised on day one, that's enough for 1,464 books! 📚📚📚

We can't wait to see what the rest of the week brings 😍
Purple poster with #ReadWithRM One in an ARMY Birthday Campaign 2025 in the top left corner. In the middle are two drawings of white stacks of books. The left stack has a book on the bottom with "New Donors" written on the spine and the number 201 on the top book. The right stack has the words 201 total donors written on the top book. At the bottom is a text box reading "$4 can purchase a storybook for one child." and there is an orange cartoon flower to the right of the text box.
September 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
Thank you, ARMY! 💜

#ReadWithRM has come to a close and 461 ARMY have donated $13,740 over the past 7 days in support of @startalibrary 😍 That's enough to revive 17 schools with new storybooks! 📚

The donation page will remain open for those who wish to join at a later date 🥰
Purple poster with #ReadWithRM One in an ARMY Birthday Campaign 2025 in the top left corner. In the middle are two drawings of white stacks of books. The left stack hasa book on the bottom with "New Donors" written on the spine and the number 26 on the top book. The right stack has the words 461 total donors written on the top book. At the bottom is a text box reading "$800 can revive one existing library with 200 new storybooks to serve an entire school." and there is a pink cartoon flower decorating the text box.
September 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
We are just over halfway through #ReadWithRM in support of @startalibrary and ARMY is doing amazing ARMY things 🥰🫶💜

33 more ARMY have donated (and many more shared!) to raise a total of $9,547 so far 😍 That's enough for 80 classrooms of books! 📚
Purple poster with #ReadWithRM One in an ARMY Birthday Campaign 2025 in the top left corner. In the middle are two drawings of white stacks of books. The left stack has a book on the bottom with "New Donors" written on the spine and the number 33 on the top book. The right stack has the words 339 total donors written on the top book. At the bottom is a text box reading "$120 can purchase 30 storybooks for an entire classroom of 30 learners!" and there is a pink cartoon flower decorating the text box.
September 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
As we start celebrating RM's birthday today, it's time for another #ReadWithRM update ☺️

376 ARMY have donated to (and so many more have shared!) the campaign supporting @startalibrary. The $10,693 raised so far could pay for almost 67 after-school book club sessions 😍💜
Purple poster with #ReadWithRM One in an ARMY Birthday Campaign 2025 in the top left corner. In the middle are two drawings of white stacks of books. The left stack has a book on the bottom with "New Donors" written on the spine and the number 37 on the top book. The right stack has the words 376 total donors written on the top book. At the bottom is a text box reading "$160 can purchase 40 storybooks to facilitate a monthly after-school book club session." and there is a purple cartoon flower decorating the text box.
September 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks
#ReadWithRM 💜
September 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
We hope everyone had (or is still having!) a great #HappyRMday 🎂🎉

There is still one more day in our celebration #ReadWithRM in support of Start A Library. 435 ARMY have donated $12,759 which is enough to supply over 60 children a book a week for an entire year! 😍
Purple poster with #ReadWithRM One in an ARMY Birthday Campaign 2025 in the top left corner. In the middle are two drawings of white stacks of books. The left stack has a book on the bottom with "New Donors" written on the spine and the number 59 on the top book. The right stack has the words 435 total donors written on the top book. At the bottom is a text boX reading "$208 can purchase 52 storybooks, ensuring one child has access to a new storybook every week for one year" and there is a yellow cartoon flower decorating the text box.
September 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
cl-crystalsnow7.bsky.social
"The Magic Faraway Tree" by Enid Blyton

One reviewer describes "The Magic Faraway Tree" perfectly: "There is a child in so many of us. In the case of those who have read the Faraway Tree series, that child may never want to grow up."

#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks #ReadWithRM💜
Cover of Enid Blyton's book "The Magic Faraway Tree".
September 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
Three days in and we keep turning the pages 😉 of RM's birthday campaign #ReadWithRM in support of @startalibrary 🎉💜

36 more ARMY have donated to raise a total of $8,874 so far! That's enough for 355 Kusoma Bags (literacy kits) to be taken home 😍
Purple poster with #ReadWithRM One in an ARMY Birthday Campaign 2025 in the top left corner. In the middle are two drawings of white stacks of books. The left stack has a book on the bottom with "New Donors" written on the spine and the number 36 on the top book. The right stack has the words 306 total donors written on the top book. At the bottom is a text box reading "$25 can purchase a Kusoma bag (literacy kit with 3 storybooks and one reading tracker) that can be shared among 3 children in one household!"' and there is a yellow cartoon flower decorating the text box.
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
martamoon.bsky.social
“Un agujero en la alambrada” (a whole in the fence) a book by François Sautereau was one of my childhood favourites. Grisón lives in Epnoi and himself and his friends always try to cross over the fence into the forbidden forest. What awaits over the fence? 😁
#ARMYsFavoriteKidBooks #ReadWithRM
September 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
oneinanarmy.bsky.social
How to donate 💜

Donate ➡️ bit.ly/ReadWithRM
Form ➡️ bit.ly/ReadWithRMForm
On the background of the poster is a photo of RM from his Right Place Wrong Person album. It has an old school feel to it and looks like it might have been taken with a film camera. He is looking away from the camera as he walks across a grassy field with dense green trees in the background. He has very short dark hair and is wearing an untucked buttoned up shirt, khaki pants, with a plaid scarf wrapped around his neck. In the middle of the poster is a beige box with cartoon flowers peaking out from behind the box. The text in the box reads “How to Donate to OIAA Charity Campaigns Visit the donation page created for this fundraiser: bit.ly/ReadWithRM Donate any amount (minimum of $1) Take a screenshot of your donation to submit it to our tracking form (cover up your personal information) Share this campaign on social media to help promote it. #ReadWithRM One in an ARMY Birthday Campaign 2025”
September 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
zeemstry.bsky.social
#ReadWithRM
Form submitted!
A screenshot of a donation receipt for the OIAA birthday fundraiser for RM, specifically a donation to Start A Library Trust for the ReFresh the Shelves at 20 Public Primary Schools in Kenya's Undeserved Communities
September 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM