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For Members 20 YEARS OF SAG FOUNDATION'S BOOKPALS Click here for photos NEIL JACOBS/SAG FOUNDATION T his year marks the 20th anniversary of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's award-winning children's literacy program BookPALS (Performing Artists for Literacy in Schools). BookPALS provides more than 2,200 volunteer SAG-AFTRA members the opportunity to give back to their communities by reading to 60,000 children in schools, hospitals and shelters every month. he SAG Foundation is gearing up for its 20 Years of BookPALS week-long celebration, May 5-11, including a special performance at the West Hollywood Public Library with BookPALS founder Barbara Bain (Mission: Impossible), the premiere of a new Storyline Online video and an online fundraiser at sagfoundation.org. he 20th anniversary celebration of BookPALS began on March 1 with hundreds of volunteer members participating in BookPALS readings in classrooms nationwide for the National Education Association's Read Across America Day honoring Dr. Seuss. Some of the highlights included a SAG Foundation livestream performance by Vanessa Marano (Switched at Birth) and Vincent Martella (Phineas and Ferb) of Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham. Locals across the nation participated, including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Phoenix and Miami. To get involved in the 20th anniversary of BookPALS this May or to become a BookPAL, go to bookpals.net. Top, BookPALS founder Barbara Bain, reads to students at Crescent Heights Elementary School in Los Angeles for Read Across America Day. Above, SAG-AFTRA Miami Local member Bill Cordell shares stories with more than 500 students at Winter Garden's Sunridge Elementary. Left, in San Francisco, left to right, members Roger Oyama, Martha Stookey and Duncan Fife read to students at Rooftop Elementary School.