Joanne Grella, kindergarten teacher at Manchester Memorial Elementary School, sits in the “reading rocker,” a rocking chair which was scheduled to be rocked on and read on all day Friday in celebration of Read Across America and Dr. Suess’s birthday. Here, she reads Suess’s “My Many Colored Days” to her students, who are well-dressed for the occasion. Jesse Poole/Gloucester Daily Times March 2, 2012

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