During the month long Read-A-Thon students from Taper Avenue Elementary School kept journals to document their reading. Altogether they read 191,801 pages! The school, along with their sponsors, was able to donate 32 copies of The Jester Has Lost His Jingle and 32 Jester & Pharley Dolls to the Los Angeles Police Department in memory of Officer Randal Simmons. Pictured, from left are Mrs. Marlene Young, co-founder of the Whitney Young Children's Foundation; Mrs. Lisa Simmons, widow of Officer Simmons; Phund Executive Director Barbara Saltzman; Officer James Hart, partner of Officer Simmons, and Taper Avenue Principal Doreen Steinbach. The Whitney Young Foundation, which is named for Mrs. Young's daughter killed by a druck driver in November 2006, also contributed Jester books and dolls in Officer Simmon's memory. Click here for related news article.